Bakersfield, MO 65766 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bakersfield, MO, ZIP 65766
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 196 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 Bakersfield, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Bakersfield has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bakersfield compares
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Bakersfield places 19,094 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 589 of 1,129.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bakersfield's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Bakersfield's dates instead of trusting one.