Mission, KS 66202 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mission, KS, ZIP 66202
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 211 frost-free days later.
Mission 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Mission 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.
The actual range around Mission's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mission compares
At roughly 211 frost-free days, Mission places 14,743 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 7 of 745.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Mission can differ from the 66202 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Mission's frost date answer different questions.