Latham, KS 67012 Frost Dates
67012, near Latham, KS: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
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 Latham, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Latham's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Latham's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Latham against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Latham places 22,974 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 400 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67012: local microclimates, on what one yard in Latham can differ from the 67012 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Latham's frost date answer different questions.