Billings, MO 65610 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Billings, MO, ZIP 65610
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 189 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Billings in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Billings 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Billings compares
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Billings places 21,639 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 792 of 1,129.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Billings can differ from the 65610 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Billings's frost date answer different questions.