Wardsville, MO 65111 Frost Dates
Wardsville, MO: when does the frost end?
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.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
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 16,339 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 264 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65111'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 65111 normal.