Walton, KS 67151 Frost Dates
Walton, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 193 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 Walton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Walton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Walton'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.
Walton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Walton places 20,074 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 252 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67151's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Walton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Walton can differ from the 67151 normal.