Sun City, KS 67071 Frost Dates
Sun City, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 191 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 Sun City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Sun 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 Sun City's last frost
04/13 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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sun City against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Sun City's last and first frost, putting it 20,957 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 281 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67071's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sun City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sun City's dates instead of trusting one.