Forest City, MO 64451 Frost Dates
Forest City, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Forest City sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Forest City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 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.
Forest City against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Forest City's last and first frost, putting it 22,944 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 884 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64451's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Forest City can differ from the 64451 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Forest City's frost date answer different questions.