Fulton, MO 65217 Frost Dates
Fulton, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fulton 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Fulton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fulton's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fulton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Fulton places 16,199 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 246 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 65217's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Fulton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fulton's dates instead of trusting one.