Leawood, KS 64145 Frost Dates
Leawood, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 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 Leawood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Leawood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Leawood's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leawood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Leawood places 16,501 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 43 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64145's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Leawood can differ from the 64145 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Leawood's frost date answer different questions.