Quinter, KS 67752 Frost Dates
67752, near Quinter, KS: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Quinter 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
Quinter'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 Quinter's last frost
04/24 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.
Quinter against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate Quinter's last and first frost, putting it 26,553 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 587 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67752: the frost range, on how to read the range around Quinter's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Quinter can differ from the 67752 normal.