Kensington, KS 66951 Frost Dates
Kensington, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
Kensington sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 6 weeks until Kensington'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kensington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 159 frost-free days, Kensington places 32,749 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 731 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 66951's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Kensington's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kensington's dates instead of trusting one.