Ellinwood, KS 67526 Frost Dates
67526, near Ellinwood, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 172 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 Ellinwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ellinwood'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 Ellinwood's last frost
04/24 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 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ellinwood against the rest of the dataset
Ellinwood's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,348 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 635 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67526: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ellinwood can differ from the 67526 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Ellinwood's frost date answer different questions.