Arkansas City, KS 67005 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Arkansas City, KS, ZIP 67005
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 197 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Arkansas City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Arkansas City has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Arkansas City compares
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Arkansas City places 18,641 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 197 of 745.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Arkansas City can differ from the 67005 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Arkansas City's frost date answer different questions.