WaKeeney, KS 67656 Frost Dates
WaKeeney, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
WaKeeney sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 WaKeeney's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
WaKeeney against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate WaKeeney's last and first frost, putting it 27,007 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 602 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67656's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around WaKeeney's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in WaKeeney can differ from the 67656 normal.