Bushton, KS 67427 Frost Dates
Bushton, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Bushton sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 7 weeks until Bushton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bushton's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bushton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Bushton places 27,257 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 608 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67427's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bushton can differ from the 67427 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bushton's frost date answer different questions.