Kansas City, MO 64101 Frost Dates
Kansas City, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Kansas City sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Kansas City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kansas City against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Kansas City's last and first frost, putting it 14,694 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 150 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64101's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Kansas City can differ from the 64101 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Kansas City's frost date answer different questions.