Arrow Point, MO 65747 Frost Dates
65747, near Arrow Point, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Arrow Point 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
Arrow Point'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 Arrow Point's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arrow Point against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Arrow Point's last and first frost, putting it 22,640 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 871 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65747: the frost range, on how to read the range around Arrow Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Arrow Point can differ from the 65747 normal.