Barnard, KS 67418 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Barnard, KS, ZIP 67418
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 170 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Barnard, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Barnard has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Barnard's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Barnard compares
About 170 days separate Barnard's last and first frost, putting it 29,276 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 678 of 745.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Barnard's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Barnard's dates instead of trusting one.