Centralia, KS 66415 Frost Dates
Centralia, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Centralia in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Centralia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Centralia's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Centralia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Centralia places 24,286 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 474 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66415's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Centralia's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Centralia's dates instead of trusting one.