Owensville, MO 65066 Frost Dates
Owensville, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Owensville 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Owensville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/27 isn't a guarantee
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Owensville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Owensville places 29,717 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 1,106 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65066's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Owensville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Owensville can differ from the 65066 normal.