Hoxie, KS 67740 Frost Dates
Hoxie, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hoxie 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 8 weeks until Hoxie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hoxie's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hoxie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Hoxie places 24,943 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 515 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67740's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hoxie can differ from the 67740 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Hoxie's frost date answer different questions.