Hanover, KS 66945 Frost Dates
Hanover, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hanover in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 7 weeks until Hanover's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hanover's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hanover against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Hanover's last and first frost, putting it 28,761 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 655 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66945's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Hanover's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hanover's dates instead of trusting one.