Dixon, MO 65459 Frost Dates
65459, near Dixon, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Dixon 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
Dixon's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Dixon's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 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.
Dixon against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Dixon's last and first frost, putting it 17,844 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 396 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65459: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Dixon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dixon's dates instead of trusting one.