Wichita, KS 67212 Frost Dates
Wichita, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. 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.
The actual range around Wichita's last frost
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
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Wichita places 17,708 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 117 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67212's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wichita's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wichita's dates instead of trusting one.