Bluff City, KS 67018 Frost Dates
67018, near Bluff City, KS: the frost window
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.
Bluff City 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
Bluff City's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Bluff City'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.
Bluff City against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Bluff City's last and first frost, putting it 16,430 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 38 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67018: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bluff City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bluff City's dates instead of trusting one.