Joplin, MO 64801 Frost Dates
Joplin, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Joplin in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Joplin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Joplin's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Joplin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Joplin places 17,712 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 390 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64801's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Joplin's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Joplin can differ from the 64801 normal.