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Anthony, KS 67003 Frost Dates

Anthony, KS: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.

Anthony sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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 9 weeks until Anthony's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Anthony's last frost

04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Anthony against the rest of the dataset

Anthony's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,322 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 30 of 745.

Learn more

Before leaning on 67003's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Anthony's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Anthony's dates instead of trusting one.