Bakersfield, MO 65637 Frost Dates
65637, near Bakersfield, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Bakersfield 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
Bakersfield'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 Bakersfield's last frost
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 19,092 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 587 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65637: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bakersfield's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bakersfield's dates instead of trusting one.