Wardsville, MO 65108 Frost Dates
65108, near Wardsville, MO: the frost window
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.
Wardsville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wardsville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 16,337 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 262 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65108: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wardsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wardsville can differ from the 65108 normal.