Green City, MO 63545 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Green City, MO?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 169 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Green City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Green City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Green City's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Green City compares
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Green City places 29,558 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 1,102 of 1,129.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 5b and Green City's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Green City's dates instead of trusting one.