Pawnee Rock, KS 67567 Frost Dates
67567, near Pawnee Rock, KS: the frost window
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pawnee Rock in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Pawnee Rock's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Pawnee Rock's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pawnee Rock against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Pawnee Rock's last and first frost, putting it 24,341 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 477 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67567: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pawnee Rock's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pawnee Rock's dates instead of trusting one.