Freeman, MO 64746 Frost Dates
Freeman, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Freeman 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Freeman's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Freeman's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Freeman against the rest of the dataset
Freeman's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,717 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 307 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64746's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Freeman's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Freeman's dates instead of trusting one.