Mountain View, MO 65548 Frost Dates
Mountain View, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Mountain View, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Mountain View's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mountain View's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mountain View against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Mountain View's last and first frost, putting it 17,523 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 369 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65548's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Mountain View's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mountain View's dates instead of trusting one.