Bates City, MO 64011 Frost Dates
64011, near Bates City, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 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 Bates City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bates City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Bates City's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bates City against the rest of the dataset
Bates City's growing season runs about 191 days, ranking 20,928 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 762 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64011: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bates City can differ from the 64011 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Bates City's frost date answer different questions.