Prairie Village, KS 66206 Frost Dates
Prairie Village, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Prairie Village 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Prairie Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Prairie Village against the rest of the dataset
Prairie Village's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,148 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 89 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66206's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Prairie Village's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Prairie Village's dates instead of trusting one.