Blue Eye, MO 65739 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Blue Eye, MO?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 209 frost-free days later.
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 Blue Eye, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Blue Eye before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Blue Eye's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Blue Eye compares
About 209 days separate Blue Eye's last and first frost, putting it 15,413 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 182 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Blue Eye's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Blue Eye can differ from the 65739 normal.