Loch Lloyd, MO 66224 Frost Dates
Loch Lloyd, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Loch Lloyd 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 Loch Lloyd's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Loch Lloyd against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Loch Lloyd's last and first frost, putting it 16,675 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 299 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66224's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Loch Lloyd's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Loch Lloyd can differ from the 66224 normal.