Pratt, KS 67124 Frost Dates
Pratt, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Pratt sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 8 weeks until Pratt's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pratt's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pratt against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Pratt places 23,822 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 433 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67124's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pratt's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pratt can differ from the 67124 normal.