Fulton, MO 65251 Frost Dates
65251, near Fulton, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Fulton 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
Fulton'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
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 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.
Fulton against the rest of the dataset
Fulton's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,218 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 597 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65251: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fulton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fulton can differ from the 65251 normal.