Milford, KS 66514 Frost Dates
Milford, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Milford 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 Milford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/12 isn't a guarantee
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Milford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Milford places 20,062 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 250 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66514's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Milford's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Milford can differ from the 66514 normal.