Hope, KS 67451 Frost Dates
67451, near Hope, KS: the frost window
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.
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 Hope, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hope's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/14 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.
Hope against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Hope's last and first frost, putting it 21,297 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 294 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67451: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hope's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hope's dates instead of trusting one.