Rockaway Beach, MO 65740 Frost Dates
Rockaway Beach, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Rockaway Beach sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Rockaway Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 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 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rockaway Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Rockaway Beach's last and first frost, putting it 16,374 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 265 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65740's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Rockaway Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rockaway Beach's dates instead of trusting one.