Bakersfield, MO 72538 Frost Dates
72538, near Bakersfield, MO: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bakersfield 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
Bakersfield'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.
The actual range around Bakersfield's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bakersfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Bakersfield places 14,380 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 143 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72538: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bakersfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bakersfield can differ from the 72538 normal.