Spickard, MO 64679 Frost Dates
64679, near Spickard, MO: the frost window
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 177 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 Spickard, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Spickard'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.
The actual range around Spickard's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Spickard against the rest of the dataset
About 177 days separate Spickard's last and first frost, putting it 26,269 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 1,053 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64679: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Spickard's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Spickard's dates instead of trusting one.