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Westwood Hills, KS 64111 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Westwood Hills, KS, ZIP 64111

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 211 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Westwood Hills 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 Westwood Hills 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.

The actual range around Westwood Hills's last frost

04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/17 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 Westwood Hills compares

About 211 days separate Westwood Hills's last and first frost, putting it 14,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 15 of 745.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Westwood Hills's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Westwood Hills can differ from the 64111 normal.