Wardsville, MO 65107 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Wardsville, MO?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 205 frost-free days later.
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 Wardsville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Wardsville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Wardsville's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wardsville compares
About 205 days separate Wardsville's last and first frost, putting it 16,336 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 261 of 1,129.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Wardsville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Wardsville's dates instead of trusting one.