Paxico, KS 66526 Frost Dates
66526, near Paxico, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Paxico 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
Paxico's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Paxico'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.
Paxico against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Paxico's last and first frost, putting it 24,024 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 460 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66526: local microclimates, on what one yard in Paxico can differ from the 66526 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Paxico's frost date answer different questions.