Hazelton, KS 67061 Frost Dates
67061, near Hazelton, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 204 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 Hazelton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hazelton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hazelton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Hazelton places 16,801 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 60 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67061: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Hazelton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hazelton's dates instead of trusting one.