Muscotah, KS 66058 Frost Dates
Muscotah, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Muscotah 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 Muscotah's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Muscotah's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Muscotah against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Muscotah's last and first frost, putting it 25,096 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 541 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66058's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Muscotah's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Muscotah can differ from the 66058 normal.