Conway Springs, KS 67031 Frost Dates
67031, near Conway Springs, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Conway Springs 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
Conway Springs'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.
Why 04/12 isn't a guarantee
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Conway Springs against the rest of the dataset
Conway Springs's growing season runs about 201 days, ranking 17,577 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 109 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67031: local microclimates, on what one yard in Conway Springs can differ from the 67031 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Conway Springs's frost date answer different questions.