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Englewood, KS 67840 Frost Dates

67840, near Englewood, KS: the frost window

Zone 6b

Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Englewood in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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

Englewood'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 Englewood's last frost

04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Englewood against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 183 frost-free days, Englewood places 24,047 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 467 of 745.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 67840: the frost range, on how to read the range around Englewood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Englewood can differ from the 67840 normal.