Baxter Springs, KS 66713 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Baxter Springs, KS, ZIP 66713
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 208 frost-free days later.
Baxter Springs sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Baxter Springs has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 04/05 isn't a guarantee
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Baxter Springs compares
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Baxter Springs places 15,599 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 25 of 745.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Baxter Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Baxter Springs's dates instead of trusting one.