Edgar Springs, MO 65532 Frost Dates
Edgar Springs, MO: when does the frost end?
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.
Edgar Springs 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 Edgar Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Edgar Springs places 28,084 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 1,094 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65532's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgar Springs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Edgar Springs can differ from the 65532 normal.