Westwood Hills, KS 64112 Frost Dates
Westwood Hills, KS: 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.
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
With roughly 9 weeks until Westwood Hills's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Westwood Hills's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,863 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 16 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64112's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Westwood Hills can differ from the 64112 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Westwood Hills's frost date answer different questions.