Reeds, MO 64859 Frost Dates
64859, near Reeds, MO: the frost window
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.
Reeds 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
Reeds'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 04/04 isn't a guarantee
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.
Reeds against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Reeds places 16,797 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 320 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64859: the frost range, on how to read the range around Reeds's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Reeds can differ from the 64859 normal.