Nevada, MO 64765 Frost Dates
64765, near Nevada, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Nevada, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Nevada'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nevada against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Nevada places 17,209 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 337 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64765: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Nevada's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Nevada's dates instead of trusting one.