Centertown, MO 65023 Frost Dates
65023, near Centertown, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Centertown 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Centertown's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/11 isn't a guarantee
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 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.
Centertown against the rest of the dataset
Centertown's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,354 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 611 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65023: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Centertown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Centertown's dates instead of trusting one.