Andover, KS 67232 Frost Dates
Andover, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Andover 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 Andover's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Andover'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.
Andover against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Andover's last and first frost, putting it 18,361 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 178 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67232's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Andover can differ from the 67232 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Andover's frost date answer different questions.