Independence, KS 67363 Frost Dates
67363, near Independence, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
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 Independence, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Independence'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 Independence's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Independence against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Independence places 18,653 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 199 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67363: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Independence's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Independence's dates instead of trusting one.