Quenemo, KS 66528 Frost Dates
Quenemo, 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 10/31, roughly 205 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 Quenemo, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Quenemo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Quenemo's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 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.
Quenemo against the rest of the dataset
Quenemo's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,401 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 37 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66528's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Quenemo's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Quenemo's dates instead of trusting one.