Sugar Creek, MO 64050 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sugar Creek, MO, ZIP 64050
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 198 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Sugar Creek, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Sugar Creek has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sugar Creek compares
Sugar Creek's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,433 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 480 of 1,129.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sugar Creek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Sugar Creek's dates instead of trusting one.