Byers, KS 67021 Frost Dates
67021, near Byers, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Byers sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Byers'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 Byers's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Byers against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Byers's last and first frost, putting it 24,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 468 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67021: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Byers's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Byers's dates instead of trusting one.