Arcadia, KS 66741 Frost Dates
Arcadia, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Arcadia in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Arcadia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Arcadia's last frost
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.
Arcadia against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Arcadia's last and first frost, putting it 16,770 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 55 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66741's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Arcadia's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Arcadia can differ from the 66741 normal.