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Agra, KS 67621 Frost Dates

67621, near Agra, KS: the frost window

Zone 6a

Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Agra 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

Agra's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Agra's last frost

04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Agra against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 159 frost-free days, Agra places 32,785 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 732 of 745.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 67621: local microclimates, on what one yard in Agra can differ from the 67621 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Agra's frost date answer different questions.