Ash Grove, MO 65604 Frost Dates
Ash Grove, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ash Grove 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 Ash Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ash Grove's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ash Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Ash Grove places 19,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 574 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65604's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ash Grove can differ from the 65604 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Ash Grove's frost date answer different questions.