Battlefield, MO 65810 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Battlefield, MO, ZIP 65810
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 204 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 Battlefield, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Battlefield has about 9 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
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Battlefield compares
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Battlefield places 16,565 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 288 of 1,129.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Battlefield can differ from the 65810 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Battlefield's frost date answer different questions.