Darlington, MO 64438 Frost Dates
Darlington, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Darlington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Darlington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Darlington's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Darlington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Darlington places 23,366 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 900 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64438's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Darlington can differ from the 64438 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Darlington's frost date answer different questions.