Manchester, KS 67482 Frost Dates
67482, near Manchester, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Manchester 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
Manchester'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.
The actual range around Manchester's last frost
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.
Manchester against the rest of the dataset
Manchester's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,356 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 303 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67482: the frost range, on how to read the range around Manchester's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Manchester can differ from the 67482 normal.