Osage Beach, MO 65047 Frost Dates
65047, near Osage Beach, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Osage Beach 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
Osage Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Osage Beach's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Osage Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Osage Beach places 13,770 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 94 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65047: the frost range, on how to read the range around Osage Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Osage Beach can differ from the 65047 normal.