Bakersfield, MO 65626 Frost Dates
Bakersfield, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bakersfield in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Bakersfield'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
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bakersfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Bakersfield places 19,091 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 586 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65626's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bakersfield's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bakersfield's dates instead of trusting one.