Dodge City, KS 67843 Frost Dates
Dodge City, KS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dodge City 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Dodge City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Dodge City places 25,185 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 550 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67843's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Dodge City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Dodge City's dates instead of trusting one.