Argyle, MO 65048 Frost Dates
65048, near Argyle, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Argyle 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
Argyle'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 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.
Argyle against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Argyle's last and first frost, putting it 17,914 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 407 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65048: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Argyle's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Argyle's dates instead of trusting one.