Fairview, MO 64842 Frost Dates
Fairview, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Fairview 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Fairview's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fairview'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 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairview against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate Fairview's last and first frost, putting it 18,196 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 448 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64842's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fairview's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fairview can differ from the 64842 normal.