Dresden, KS 67635 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Dresden, KS, ZIP 67635
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/11, about 163 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Dresden, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Dresden has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Dresden's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dresden compares
About 163 days separate Dresden's last and first frost, putting it 31,556 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 719 of 745.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Dresden's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Dresden's dates instead of trusting one.