Lee's Summit, MO 64081 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lee's Summit, MO, ZIP 64081
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 202 frost-free days later.
Lee's Summit sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Lee's Summit 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 Lee's Summit's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/24 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lee's Summit compares
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Lee's Summit places 17,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 326 of 1,129.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Lee's Summit can differ from the 64081 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Lee's Summit's frost date answer different questions.