Maysville, MO 64469 Frost Dates
64469, near Maysville, MO: the frost window
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 180 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 Maysville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Maysville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Maysville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Maysville places 24,955 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 1,015 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64469: local microclimates, on what one yard in Maysville can differ from the 64469 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Maysville's frost date answer different questions.