FrostDateCheck

Camdenton, MO 65020 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Camdenton, MO?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 216 frost-free days later.

Camdenton sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.

What to do before the first frost

About 10 weeks of growing season left in Camdenton before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Camdenton's last frost

03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Camdenton compares

At roughly 216 frost-free days, Camdenton places 13,781 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 96 of 1,129.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Camdenton's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Camdenton can differ from the 65020 normal.