Willard, MO 65814 Frost Dates
Willard, MO: when does the frost end?
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.
Willard sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Willard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Willard's last frost
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
About 199 days separate Willard's last and first frost, putting it 18,084 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 427 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65814's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Willard's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Willard can differ from the 65814 normal.