Sparta, MO 65720 Frost Dates
Sparta, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 167 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 Sparta, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Sparta's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sparta's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sparta against the rest of the dataset
Sparta's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,032 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 1,118 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65720's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sparta can differ from the 65720 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sparta's frost date answer different questions.