Raytown, MO 64133 Frost Dates
Raytown, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Raytown 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Raytown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Raytown's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Raytown against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Raytown's last and first frost, putting it 18,289 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 475 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64133's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Raytown can differ from the 64133 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Raytown's frost date answer different questions.