Osborne, KS 67473 Frost Dates
67473, near Osborne, KS: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Osborne in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Osborne's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Osborne against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Osborne's last and first frost, putting it 31,036 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 710 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67473: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Osborne's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Osborne's dates instead of trusting one.