Schell City, MO 64783 Frost Dates
64783, near Schell City, MO: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 199 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 Schell City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Schell City'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
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Schell City against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate Schell City's last and first frost, putting it 18,218 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 455 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64783: the frost range, on how to read the range around Schell City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Schell City can differ from the 64783 normal.