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Nevada, MO 64772 Frost Dates

64772, near Nevada, MO: the frost window

Zone 7a

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.

Nevada sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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

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 17,210 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 338 of 1,129.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 64772: local microclimates, on what one yard in Nevada can differ from the 64772 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Nevada's frost date answer different questions.