Lansing, KS 66043 Frost Dates
Lansing, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 181 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 Lansing, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Lansing'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 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lansing against the rest of the dataset
Lansing's growing season runs about 181 days, ranking 24,476 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 485 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66043's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Lansing's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lansing's dates instead of trusting one.