Maitland, MO 64466 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Maitland, MO, ZIP 64466
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 186 frost-free days later.
Maitland sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Maitland has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Maitland's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Maitland compares
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Maitland places 22,935 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 883 of 1,129.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Maitland's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Maitland's dates instead of trusting one.