Mansfield, MO 65704 Frost Dates
65704, near Mansfield, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mansfield in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Mansfield'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 Mansfield's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 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.
Mansfield against the rest of the dataset
Mansfield's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,725 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 546 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65704: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mansfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mansfield can differ from the 65704 normal.