Arlington, KS 67514 Frost Dates
67514, near Arlington, KS: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Arlington in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Arlington'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 Arlington's last frost
04/21 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 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arlington against the rest of the dataset
Arlington's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 25,026 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 527 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67514: the frost range, on how to read the range around Arlington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Arlington can differ from the 67514 normal.