Ludlow, MO 64638 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Ludlow, MO, ZIP 64638
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 187 frost-free days later.
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 Ludlow, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Ludlow has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Ludlow's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ludlow compares
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Ludlow places 22,632 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 868 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Ludlow's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Ludlow can differ from the 64638 normal.