St. Francis, KS 67756 Frost Dates
67756, near St. Francis, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
St. Francis 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
St. Francis's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Francis against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate St. Francis's last and first frost, putting it 32,420 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 726 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67756: the frost range, on how to read the range around St. Francis's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Francis can differ from the 67756 normal.