La Crosse, KS 67548 Frost Dates
67548, near La Crosse, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts La Crosse in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
La Crosse'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 La Crosse's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Crosse against the rest of the dataset
La Crosse's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,718 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 651 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67548: local microclimates, on what one yard in La Crosse can differ from the 67548 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and La Crosse's frost date answer different questions.