Luray, KS 67649 Frost Dates
Luray, KS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Luray sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Luray's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Luray against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Luray's last and first frost, putting it 25,513 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 565 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67649's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Luray's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Luray's dates instead of trusting one.