Cawker City, KS 67430 Frost Dates
Cawker City, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cawker City in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Cawker City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cawker City's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cawker City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Cawker City places 29,769 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 686 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67430's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cawker City can differ from the 67430 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Cawker City's frost date answer different questions.