Sedgwick, KS 67135 Frost Dates
Sedgwick, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sedgwick in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Sedgwick's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sedgwick's last frost
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.
Sedgwick against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Sedgwick's last and first frost, putting it 19,969 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 240 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67135's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sedgwick can differ from the 67135 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Sedgwick's frost date answer different questions.