La Monte, MO 65337 Frost Dates
La Monte, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts La Monte in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until La Monte's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around La Monte's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Monte against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 184 frost-free days, La Monte places 23,594 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 909 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65337's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around La Monte's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in La Monte can differ from the 65337 normal.