Tescott, KS 67484 Frost Dates
67484, near Tescott, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 181 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 Tescott, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tescott'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.
The actual range around Tescott's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tescott against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Tescott places 24,716 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 494 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67484: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Tescott's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Tescott's dates instead of trusting one.