Hume, MO 64752 Frost Dates
64752, near Hume, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Hume 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
Hume's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hume against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Hume's last and first frost, putting it 22,190 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 816 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64752: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hume's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hume's dates instead of trusting one.