Sugar Creek, MO 64054 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sugar Creek, MO, ZIP 64054
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 198 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sugar Creek in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
The actual range around Sugar Creek's last frost
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 18,435 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 482 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.