Wilsey, KS 66873 Frost Dates
Wilsey, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Wilsey 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 8 weeks until Wilsey'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
04/11 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.
Wilsey against the rest of the dataset
About 194 days separate Wilsey's last and first frost, putting it 19,648 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 228 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66873's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wilsey's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wilsey's dates instead of trusting one.