FrostDateCheck

Liberty, MO 64157 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Liberty, MO?

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 183 frost-free days later.

Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Liberty, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 8 weeks of growing season left in Liberty before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Liberty's last frost

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Liberty compares

At roughly 183 frost-free days, Liberty places 23,766 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 954 of 1,129.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Liberty's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Liberty can differ from the 64157 normal.