WaKeeney, KS 67672 Frost Dates
67672, near WaKeeney, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
WaKeeney 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
WaKeeney's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 WaKeeney's last frost
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 27,008 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 603 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67672: the frost range, on how to read the range around WaKeeney's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in WaKeeney can differ from the 67672 normal.