North Kansas City, MO 64116 Frost Dates
64116, near North Kansas City, MO: the frost window
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.
North Kansas City 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Kansas City's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
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.
North Kansas City against the rest of the dataset
North Kansas City's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,745 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 162 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64116: the frost range, on how to read the range around North Kansas City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in North Kansas City can differ from the 64116 normal.