Leeton, MO 64761 Frost Dates
64761, near Leeton, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Leeton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Leeton'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.
The actual range around Leeton's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leeton against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Leeton's last and first frost, putting it 20,881 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 754 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64761: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Leeton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Leeton's dates instead of trusting one.