Maple Hill, KS 66507 Frost Dates
Maple Hill, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
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 Maple Hill, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Maple Hill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Maple Hill's last frost
04/18 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 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Maple Hill against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Maple Hill's last and first frost, putting it 23,967 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 450 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66507's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Maple Hill's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Maple Hill's dates instead of trusting one.