Asbury, MO 64832 Frost Dates
64832, near Asbury, MO: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Asbury 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
Asbury'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.
Why 04/07 isn't a guarantee
04/07 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 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Asbury against the rest of the dataset
Asbury's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 17,052 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 324 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64832: local microclimates, on what one yard in Asbury can differ from the 64832 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Asbury's frost date answer different questions.