Yates Center, KS 66783 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Yates Center, KS?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 198 frost-free days later.
Yates Center sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Yates Center before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Yates Center's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 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 Yates Center compares
About 198 days separate Yates Center's last and first frost, putting it 18,457 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 186 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Yates Center's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Yates Center can differ from the 66783 normal.