Kingdom City, MO 65262 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Kingdom City, MO, ZIP 65262
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 195 frost-free days later.
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 Kingdom City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Kingdom City 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 Kingdom City'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. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Kingdom City compares
About 195 days separate Kingdom City's last and first frost, putting it 19,389 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 624 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Kingdom City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Kingdom City can differ from the 65262 normal.