Galena, KS 66739 Frost Dates
Galena, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 200 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 Galena, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Galena's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Galena's last frost
04/09 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Galena against the rest of the dataset
Galena's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,798 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 129 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66739's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Galena can differ from the 66739 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Galena's frost date answer different questions.