North Kansas City, MO 66101 Frost Dates
North Kansas City, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Kansas City in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until North Kansas City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 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.
North Kansas City against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate North Kansas City's last and first frost, putting it 14,746 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 163 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66101's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and North Kansas City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around North Kansas City's dates instead of trusting one.