Leawood, KS 66211 Frost Dates
66211, near Leawood, KS: the frost window
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.
Leawood 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
Leawood's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Leawood's last frost
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.
Leawood against the rest of the dataset
Leawood's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,131 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 87 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66211: local microclimates, on what one yard in Leawood can differ from the 66211 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Leawood's frost date answer different questions.