Asbury, MO 66760 Frost Dates
66760, near Asbury, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 203 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 Asbury, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Asbury'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.
Why 04/07 isn't a guarantee
04/07 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 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Asbury against the rest of the dataset
About 203 days separate Asbury's last and first frost, putting it 17,053 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 325 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66760: local microclimates, on what one yard in Asbury can differ from the 66760 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Asbury's frost date answer different questions.