Gainesville, MO 65638 Frost Dates
Gainesville, MO: when does the frost end?
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.
Gainesville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Gainesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/14 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Gainesville places 20,008 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 677 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65638's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gainesville can differ from the 65638 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Gainesville's frost date answer different questions.