Rocheport, MO 65279 Frost Dates
65279, near Rocheport, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
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 Rocheport, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rocheport's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Rocheport'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.
Rocheport against the rest of the dataset
About 195 days separate Rocheport's last and first frost, putting it 19,365 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 618 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65279: the frost range, on how to read the range around Rocheport's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Rocheport can differ from the 65279 normal.