Laurie, MO 65037 Frost Dates
65037, near Laurie, MO: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Laurie in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Laurie's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Laurie against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Laurie's last and first frost, putting it 13,854 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 99 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65037: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Laurie's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Laurie's dates instead of trusting one.