Enterprise, KS 67441 Frost Dates
Enterprise, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Enterprise 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 8 weeks until Enterprise's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Enterprise's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Enterprise against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Enterprise's last and first frost, putting it 21,261 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 290 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67441's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Enterprise can differ from the 67441 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Enterprise's frost date answer different questions.