Kansas City, MO 64105 Frost Dates
Kansas City, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kansas City in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 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 14,696 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 152 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64105's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Kansas City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kansas City's dates instead of trusting one.