Belvue, KS 66407 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Belvue, KS, ZIP 66407
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 183 frost-free days later.
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 Belvue, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Belvue has about 7 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Belvue compares
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Belvue places 24,027 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 461 of 745.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Belvue can differ from the 66407 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Belvue's frost date answer different questions.