Nortonville, KS 66060 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Nortonville, KS, ZIP 66060
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 199 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Nortonville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Nortonville has about 9 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Nortonville compares
At roughly 199 frost-free days, Nortonville places 18,182 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 159 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Nortonville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Nortonville can differ from the 66060 normal.