Highland, KS 66035 Frost Dates
Highland, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Highland sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Highland'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
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Highland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Highland places 24,231 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 472 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66035's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Highland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Highland can differ from the 66035 normal.