Prairie Home, MO 65068 Frost Dates
Prairie Home, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Prairie Home 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 8 weeks until Prairie Home's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Prairie Home against the rest of the dataset
Prairie Home's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,357 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 612 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65068's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Prairie Home's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Prairie Home's dates instead of trusting one.