Olmitz, KS 67564 Frost Dates
67564, near Olmitz, 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.
Olmitz 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
Olmitz'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 Olmitz'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.
Olmitz against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Olmitz places 28,546 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 647 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67564: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Olmitz's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Olmitz's dates instead of trusting one.