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Lanagan, MO 64847 Frost Dates

Lanagan, MO: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Lanagan, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Lanagan's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Lanagan's last frost

04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Lanagan against the rest of the dataset

About 191 days separate Lanagan's last and first frost, putting it 20,903 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 758 of 1,129.

Learn more

Before leaning on 64847's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lanagan's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lanagan can differ from the 64847 normal.