Chamois, MO 65077 Frost Dates
Chamois, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Chamois, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Chamois'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
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chamois against the rest of the dataset
Chamois's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,342 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 608 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65077's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Chamois can differ from the 65077 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Chamois's frost date answer different questions.