Bird City, KS 67731 Frost Dates
Bird City, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Bird City 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Bird City'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
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bird City against the rest of the dataset
Bird City's growing season runs about 160 days, ranking 32,492 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 728 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67731's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Bird City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bird City's dates instead of trusting one.