Ozawkie, KS 66070 Frost Dates
66070, near Ozawkie, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 191 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 Ozawkie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ozawkie'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 Ozawkie's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ozawkie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Ozawkie places 20,872 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 275 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66070: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Ozawkie's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ozawkie's dates instead of trusting one.