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Viburnum, MO 65440 Frost Dates

Viburnum, MO: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.

Viburnum 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 7 weeks until Viburnum's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Viburnum's last frost

04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Viburnum against the rest of the dataset

Viburnum's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,262 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 972 of 1,129.

Learn more

Before leaning on 65440's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Viburnum's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Viburnum's dates instead of trusting one.