Fairway, KS 66205 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Fairway, KS?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 211 frost-free days later.
Fairway 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
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Fairway before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Fairway'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 Fairway compares
About 211 days separate Fairway's last and first frost, putting it 14,760 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 8 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Fairway's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Fairway can differ from the 66205 normal.