Melvern, KS 66510 Frost Dates
Melvern, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Melvern 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 9 weeks until Melvern's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Melvern's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Melvern against the rest of the dataset
Melvern's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,345 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 99 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66510's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Melvern can differ from the 66510 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Melvern's frost date answer different questions.