Gentry, MO 64453 Frost Dates
64453, near Gentry, MO: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gentry in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Gentry's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Gentry'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.
Gentry against the rest of the dataset
About 185 days separate Gentry's last and first frost, putting it 23,368 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 901 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64453: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gentry can differ from the 64453 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Gentry's frost date answer different questions.