Leasburg, MO 65535 Frost Dates
65535, near Leasburg, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Leasburg 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
Leasburg's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Leasburg's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leasburg against the rest of the dataset
Leasburg's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 31,170 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 1,129 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65535: the frost range, on how to read the range around Leasburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Leasburg can differ from the 65535 normal.