Brookfield, MO 64628 Frost Dates
Brookfield, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Brookfield 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 Brookfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brookfield against the rest of the dataset
Brookfield's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,302 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 693 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64628's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Brookfield can differ from the 64628 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Brookfield's frost date answer different questions.