Crocker, MO 65452 Frost Dates
Crocker, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Crocker 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 8 weeks until Crocker's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 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 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crocker against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Crocker places 23,245 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 896 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65452's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Crocker's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Crocker can differ from the 65452 normal.