Eastborough, KS 67218 Frost Dates
Eastborough, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Eastborough, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Eastborough's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eastborough's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 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.
Eastborough against the rest of the dataset
Eastborough's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,496 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 194 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67218's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eastborough can differ from the 67218 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Eastborough's frost date answer different questions.