Bunceton, MO 65237 Frost Dates
Bunceton, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Bunceton 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Bunceton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bunceton's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bunceton against the rest of the dataset
About 195 days separate Bunceton's last and first frost, putting it 19,343 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 609 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65237's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bunceton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bunceton can differ from the 65237 normal.