Garden Plain, KS 67050 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Garden Plain, KS?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 200 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Garden Plain in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Garden Plain before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Garden Plain's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Garden Plain compares
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Garden Plain places 17,856 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 132 of 745.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Garden Plain can differ from the 67050 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Garden Plain's frost date answer different questions.