Cedar Point, KS 66843 Frost Dates
Cedar Point, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Cedar Point 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Cedar Point's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cedar Point's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cedar Point against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Cedar Point places 26,690 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 598 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66843's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedar Point can differ from the 66843 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Cedar Point's frost date answer different questions.