Westwood Hills, KS 64130 Frost Dates
Westwood Hills, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. 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 Westwood Hills in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Westwood Hills's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
About 211 days separate Westwood Hills's last and first frost, putting it 14,864 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 17 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64130's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Westwood Hills can differ from the 64130 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Westwood Hills's frost date answer different questions.