Willard, MO 65805 Frost Dates
65805, near Willard, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Willard 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
Willard'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
04/09 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 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Willard against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 199 frost-free days, Willard places 18,082 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 425 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65805: the frost range, on how to read the range around Willard's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Willard can differ from the 65805 normal.