Lebo, KS 66856 Frost Dates
Lebo, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lebo in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Lebo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lebo's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 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.
Lebo against the rest of the dataset
About 202 days separate Lebo's last and first frost, putting it 17,293 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 97 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66856's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lebo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lebo can differ from the 66856 normal.