Edgar Springs, MO 65462 Frost Dates
65462, near Edgar Springs, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Edgar Springs 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
Edgar Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Edgar Springs's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edgar Springs against the rest of the dataset
Edgar Springs's growing season runs about 173 days, ranking 28,083 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 1,093 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65462: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Edgar Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Edgar Springs's dates instead of trusting one.