Lowry City, MO 64763 Frost Dates
64763, near Lowry City, MO: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Lowry City 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
Lowry City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lowry City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Lowry City places 21,680 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 795 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64763: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lowry City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lowry City can differ from the 64763 normal.