Hermitage, MO 65668 Frost Dates
65668, near Hermitage, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 204 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 Hermitage, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hermitage'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.
Hermitage against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Hermitage's last and first frost, putting it 16,703 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 304 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65668: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hermitage can differ from the 65668 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hermitage's frost date answer different questions.