Camdenton, MO 65463 Frost Dates
Camdenton, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Camdenton 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 Camdenton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Camdenton'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 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camdenton against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Camdenton's last and first frost, putting it 22,367 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 835 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65463's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Camdenton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Camdenton's dates instead of trusting one.