Prairie View, KS 67664 Frost Dates
Prairie View, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Prairie View in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Prairie View'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
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 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.
Prairie View against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Prairie View's last and first frost, putting it 28,543 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 646 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67664's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Prairie View's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Prairie View can differ from the 67664 normal.