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Wardsville, MO 65106 Frost Dates

Wardsville, MO: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. 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.

The actual range around Wardsville's last frost

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

At roughly 205 frost-free days, Wardsville places 16,335 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 260 of 1,129.

Learn more

Before leaning on 65106's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wardsville can differ from the 65106 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wardsville's frost date answer different questions.