Jerico Springs, MO 64756 Frost Dates
64756, near Jerico Springs, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 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 Jerico Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Jerico 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.
The actual range around Jerico Springs's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 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.
Jerico Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 207 frost-free days, Jerico Springs places 15,888 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 216 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64756: local microclimates, on what one yard in Jerico Springs can differ from the 64756 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Jerico Springs's frost date answer different questions.