Goddard, KS 67227 Frost Dates
67227, near Goddard, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Goddard 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
Goddard's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Goddard's last frost
04/11 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goddard against the rest of the dataset
Goddard's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,089 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 150 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67227: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Goddard's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Goddard's dates instead of trusting one.