Clarksburg, MO 65055 Frost Dates
Clarksburg, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Clarksburg in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Clarksburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Clarksburg's last frost
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.
Clarksburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Clarksburg places 19,360 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 615 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65055's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Clarksburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Clarksburg can differ from the 65055 normal.