Purdy, MO 65734 Frost Dates
65734, near Purdy, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Purdy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Purdy'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Purdy against the rest of the dataset
Purdy's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,155 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 438 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65734: local microclimates, on what one yard in Purdy can differ from the 65734 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Purdy's frost date answer different questions.