West Mineral, KS 66782 Frost Dates
West Mineral, 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 10/31, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
West Mineral sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until West Mineral's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
West Mineral against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, West Mineral places 15,771 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 29 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66782's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and West Mineral's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around West Mineral's dates instead of trusting one.