Bluff City, KS 67049 Frost Dates
Bluff City, 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 10/30, 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Bluff City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
Bluff City's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,431 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 39 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67049's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bluff City can differ from the 67049 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bluff City's frost date answer different questions.