Goessel, KS 67053 Frost Dates
67053, near Goessel, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Goessel, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Goessel'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.
Why 04/14 isn't a guarantee
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 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.
Goessel against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Goessel's last and first frost, putting it 20,040 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 247 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67053: local microclimates, on what one yard in Goessel can differ from the 67053 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Goessel's frost date answer different questions.