Gainesville, MO 65618 Frost Dates
65618, near Gainesville, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 193 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 Gainesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gainesville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Gainesville's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gainesville against the rest of the dataset
Gainesville's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 20,007 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 676 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65618: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gainesville can differ from the 65618 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Gainesville's frost date answer different questions.