Fayette, MO 65248 Frost Dates
Fayette, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Fayette 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 Fayette's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/13 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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fayette against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Fayette's last and first frost, putting it 20,777 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 728 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65248's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fayette's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fayette can differ from the 65248 normal.