Beattie, KS 66438 Frost Dates
Beattie, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Beattie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Beattie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Beattie's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beattie against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Beattie's last and first frost, putting it 28,826 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 659 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66438's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Beattie's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Beattie can differ from the 66438 normal.