Holts Summit, MO 65043 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Holts Summit, MO, ZIP 65043
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 198 frost-free days later.
Holts Summit 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Holts Summit 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 Holts Summit's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Holts Summit compares
About 198 days separate Holts Summit's last and first frost, putting it 18,427 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 479 of 1,129.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Holts Summit can differ from the 65043 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Holts Summit's frost date answer different questions.