Westwood Hills, KS 64110 Frost Dates
64110, near Westwood Hills, KS: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
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 Westwood Hills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Westwood Hills'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 Westwood Hills's last frost
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.
Westwood Hills against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 211 frost-free days, Westwood Hills places 14,861 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 14 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64110: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Westwood Hills's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Westwood Hills's dates instead of trusting one.