Leon, KS 67132 Frost Dates
67132, near Leon, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Leon 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
Leon'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.
The actual range around Leon's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 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.
Leon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Leon places 22,899 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 385 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67132: the frost range, on how to read the range around Leon's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Leon can differ from the 67132 normal.