Willow Springs, MO 65793 Frost Dates
Willow Springs, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
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 Willow Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Willow Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Willow Springs's last frost
04/08 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Willow Springs against the rest of the dataset
Willow Springs's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,132 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 434 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65793's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Willow Springs can differ from the 65793 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Willow Springs's frost date answer different questions.