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Wardsville, MO 65107 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Wardsville, MO?

Zone 6b

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.