Rozel, KS 67574 Frost Dates
67574, near Rozel, KS: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Rozel, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rozel'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.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
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.
Rozel against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Rozel places 21,344 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 299 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67574: local microclimates, on what one yard in Rozel can differ from the 67574 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Rozel's frost date answer different questions.