Mission Hills, KS 64132 Frost Dates
64132, near Mission Hills, KS: the frost window
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.
Mission Hills sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mission 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 Mission 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.
Mission Hills against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Mission Hills's last and first frost, putting it 14,763 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 10 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64132: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Mission Hills's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Mission Hills's dates instead of trusting one.