Hughesville, MO 65334 Frost Dates
65334, near Hughesville, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Hughesville 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
Hughesville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 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.
Hughesville against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Hughesville's last and first frost, putting it 18,850 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 564 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65334: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hughesville can differ from the 65334 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hughesville's frost date answer different questions.