Nevada, MO 64772 Frost Dates
64772, 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.
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.