Stoutland, MO 65567 Frost Dates
Stoutland, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Stoutland 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 8 weeks until Stoutland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Stoutland against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Stoutland's last and first frost, putting it 22,613 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 861 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65567's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Stoutland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Stoutland can differ from the 65567 normal.