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Bartlett, KS 67332 Frost Dates

67332, near Bartlett, KS: the frost window

Zone 7a

Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.

Bartlett 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

Bartlett's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Bartlett's last frost

04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Bartlett against the rest of the dataset

About 192 days separate Bartlett's last and first frost, putting it 20,602 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 267 of 745.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 67332: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bartlett's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bartlett can differ from the 67332 normal.