McCord Bend, MO 65624 Frost Dates
McCord Bend, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 187 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 McCord Bend, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until McCord Bend's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
04/16 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 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McCord Bend against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate McCord Bend's last and first frost, putting it 22,610 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 858 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65624's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and McCord Bend's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around McCord Bend's dates instead of trusting one.