Ness City, KS 67560 Frost Dates
Ness City, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
Ness City sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Ness City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ness City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 166 frost-free days, Ness City places 30,401 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 699 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67560's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ness City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ness City can differ from the 67560 normal.