Green, KS 67447 Frost Dates
67447, near Green, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Green in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Green's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Green against the rest of the dataset
About 181 days separate Green's last and first frost, putting it 24,741 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 497 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67447: local microclimates, on what one yard in Green can differ from the 67447 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Green's frost date answer different questions.