Schoenchen, KS 67660 Frost Dates
67660, near Schoenchen, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
Schoenchen 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
Schoenchen's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Schoenchen's last frost
04/19 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.
Schoenchen against the rest of the dataset
Schoenchen's growing season runs about 184 days, ranking 23,672 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 429 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67660: the frost range, on how to read the range around Schoenchen's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Schoenchen can differ from the 67660 normal.