Purcell, MO 64857 Frost Dates
64857, near Purcell, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Purcell 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
Purcell'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 04/09 isn't a guarantee
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.
Purcell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Purcell places 17,894 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 402 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64857: the frost range, on how to read the range around Purcell's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Purcell can differ from the 64857 normal.