Fort Scott, KS 66701 Frost Dates
Fort Scott, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Fort Scott, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Fort Scott's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/05 isn't a guarantee
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 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.
Fort Scott against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Fort Scott places 16,558 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 49 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66701's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Scott can differ from the 66701 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Fort Scott's frost date answer different questions.