Higginsville, MO 64037 Frost Dates
64037, near Higginsville, MO: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Higginsville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Higginsville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Higginsville against the rest of the dataset
About 195 days separate Higginsville's last and first frost, putting it 19,257 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 599 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64037: the frost range, on how to read the range around Higginsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Higginsville can differ from the 64037 normal.