Lake Tapawingo, MO 64199 Frost Dates
Lake Tapawingo, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Tapawingo in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Lake Tapawingo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lake Tapawingo's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Tapawingo against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Lake Tapawingo's last and first frost, putting it 18,488 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 505 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64199's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Tapawingo can differ from the 64199 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Lake Tapawingo's frost date answer different questions.