Elwood, KS 66024 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Elwood, KS, ZIP 66024
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 180 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Elwood, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Elwood has about 7 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 Elwood's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Elwood compares
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Elwood places 24,951 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 521 of 745.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Elwood can differ from the 66024 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Elwood's frost date answer different questions.