Wichita, KS 67209 Frost Dates
Wichita, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Wichita sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 9 weeks until Wichita's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wichita against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Wichita's last and first frost, putting it 17,707 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 116 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67209's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wichita's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wichita can differ from the 67209 normal.