Chetopa, KS 67336 Frost Dates
Chetopa, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Chetopa 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 Chetopa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Chetopa's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 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.
Chetopa against the rest of the dataset
Chetopa's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 16,994 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 64 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67336's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Chetopa's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Chetopa's dates instead of trusting one.