Norcatur, KS 67653 Frost Dates
67653, near Norcatur, KS: the frost window
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
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 Norcatur, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Norcatur'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 Norcatur's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Norcatur against the rest of the dataset
Norcatur's growing season runs about 162 days, ranking 31,886 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 723 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67653: local microclimates, on what one yard in Norcatur can differ from the 67653 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Norcatur's frost date answer different questions.