Battlefield, MO 65619 Frost Dates
65619, near Battlefield, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Battlefield 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
Battlefield's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Battlefield's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Battlefield against the rest of the dataset
Battlefield's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,564 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 287 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65619: local microclimates, on what one yard in Battlefield can differ from the 65619 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Battlefield's frost date answer different questions.