Gainesville, MO 65773 Frost Dates
65773, near Gainesville, MO: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gainesville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gainesville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gainesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Gainesville places 18,490 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 507 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65773: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gainesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gainesville can differ from the 65773 normal.