Wardsville, MO 65102 Frost Dates
Wardsville, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wardsville 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 9 weeks until Wardsville'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
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wardsville against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Wardsville's last and first frost, putting it 16,331 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 256 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65102's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wardsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wardsville can differ from the 65102 normal.