Fredonia, KS 66736 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fredonia, KS, ZIP 66736
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 199 frost-free days later.
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 Fredonia, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Fredonia 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.
The actual range around Fredonia's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fredonia compares
Fredonia's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,138 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 153 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Fredonia's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Fredonia can differ from the 66736 normal.