Garfield, KS 67529 Frost Dates
67529, near Garfield, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Garfield 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
Garfield's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Garfield's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Garfield against the rest of the dataset
Garfield's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,332 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 296 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67529: local microclimates, on what one yard in Garfield can differ from the 67529 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Garfield's frost date answer different questions.