Elsmore, KS 66732 Frost Dates
66732, near Elsmore, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 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 Elsmore, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elsmore's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Elsmore's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elsmore against the rest of the dataset
Elsmore's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 17,068 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 69 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66732: local microclimates, on what one yard in Elsmore can differ from the 66732 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Elsmore's frost date answer different questions.