Brooklyn Heights, MO 64802 Frost Dates
Brooklyn Heights, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brooklyn Heights 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 Brooklyn Heights's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Brooklyn Heights's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brooklyn Heights against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Brooklyn Heights's last and first frost, putting it 16,794 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 318 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64802's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Brooklyn Heights's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Brooklyn Heights can differ from the 64802 normal.