Perry, MO 65282 Frost Dates
65282, near Perry, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Perry, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Perry'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 Perry's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perry against the rest of the dataset
Perry's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,748 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 550 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65282: the frost range, on how to read the range around Perry's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Perry can differ from the 65282 normal.