Blue Eye, MO 65611 Frost Dates
65611, near Blue Eye, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Blue Eye sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Blue Eye's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blue Eye against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Blue Eye places 15,412 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 181 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65611: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Blue Eye's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Blue Eye's dates instead of trusting one.