Holt, MO 64048 Frost Dates
Holt, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Holt in Zone 6a (-10 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Holt's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Holt's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Holt against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Holt places 24,691 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 991 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64048's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Holt can differ from the 64048 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Holt's frost date answer different questions.