Bakersfield, MO 65790 Frost Dates
65790, near Bakersfield, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Bakersfield 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
Bakersfield'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 Bakersfield's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bakersfield against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Bakersfield's last and first frost, putting it 19,095 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 590 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65790: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bakersfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bakersfield can differ from the 65790 normal.