Dodge City, KS 67801 Frost Dates
67801, near Dodge City, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Dodge City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dodge City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Dodge City's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dodge City against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Dodge City's last and first frost, putting it 25,184 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 549 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67801: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dodge City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dodge City can differ from the 67801 normal.