Gypsum, KS 67448 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Gypsum, KS?
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, 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 Gypsum, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Gypsum before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Gypsum's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Gypsum compares
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Gypsum places 29,204 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 674 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Gypsum's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Gypsum can differ from the 67448 normal.