Flemington, MO 65650 Frost Dates
65650, near Flemington, MO: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Flemington in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Flemington's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Flemington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Flemington places 16,792 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 317 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65650: local microclimates, on what one yard in Flemington can differ from the 65650 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Flemington's frost date answer different questions.