Conway, MO 65632 Frost Dates
Conway, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Conway, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Conway's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Conway's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 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.
Conway against the rest of the dataset
Conway's growing season runs about 191 days, ranking 20,854 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 749 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65632's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Conway can differ from the 65632 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Conway's frost date answer different questions.