Lorraine, KS 67459 Frost Dates
67459, near Lorraine, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Lorraine 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
Lorraine'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
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lorraine against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Lorraine's last and first frost, putting it 27,284 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 610 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67459: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lorraine can differ from the 67459 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lorraine's frost date answer different questions.