El Dorado Springs, MO 64744 Frost Dates
64744, near El Dorado Springs, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
El Dorado Springs sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
El Dorado Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
El Dorado Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 199 frost-free days, El Dorado Springs places 18,115 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 432 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64744: local microclimates, on what one yard in El Dorado Springs can differ from the 64744 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and El Dorado Springs's frost date answer different questions.