Cedar Vale, KS 67024 Frost Dates
Cedar Vale, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 199 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 Cedar Vale, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Cedar Vale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cedar Vale's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cedar Vale against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate Cedar Vale's last and first frost, putting it 18,189 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 160 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67024's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cedar Vale's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedar Vale can differ from the 67024 normal.