Goddard, KS 67235 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Goddard, KS?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 200 frost-free days later.
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 Goddard, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Goddard before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Goddard's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Goddard compares
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Goddard places 17,764 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 122 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Goddard's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Goddard can differ from the 67235 normal.