Pickering, MO 64476 Frost Dates
64476, near Pickering, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pickering 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
Pickering'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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pickering against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Pickering's last and first frost, putting it 25,100 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 1,030 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64476: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Pickering's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pickering's dates instead of trusting one.