Council Grove, KS 66846 Frost Dates
66846, near Council Grove, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Council Grove 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
Council Grove's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/11 isn't a guarantee
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Council Grove against the rest of the dataset
About 194 days separate Council Grove's last and first frost, putting it 19,502 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 219 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 66846: the frost range, on how to read the range around Council Grove's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Council Grove can differ from the 66846 normal.