Fordland, MO 65652 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Fordland, MO?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 191 frost-free days later.
Fordland sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Fordland before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Fordland's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fordland compares
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Fordland places 20,850 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 746 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Fordland's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Fordland can differ from the 65652 normal.