Baxter Springs, KS 66770 Frost Dates
66770, near Baxter Springs, KS: the frost window
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 208 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 Baxter Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Baxter Springs'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.
Why 04/05 isn't a guarantee
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 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.
Baxter Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Baxter Springs's last and first frost, putting it 15,600 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 26 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66770: local microclimates, on what one yard in Baxter Springs can differ from the 66770 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Baxter Springs's frost date answer different questions.