Eskridge, KS 66423 Frost Dates
Eskridge, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Eskridge 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 8 weeks until Eskridge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eskridge's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eskridge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Eskridge places 19,583 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 222 of 745.
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Before leaning on 66423's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eskridge can differ from the 66423 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Eskridge's frost date answer different questions.