Kincaid, KS 66039 Frost Dates
66039, near Kincaid, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Kincaid 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
Kincaid's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Kincaid's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kincaid against the rest of the dataset
Kincaid's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,921 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 143 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66039: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kincaid's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kincaid can differ from the 66039 normal.