Hanston, KS 67849 Frost Dates
67849, near Hanston, KS: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
Hanston sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Hanston'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.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hanston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 166 frost-free days, Hanston places 30,454 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 701 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67849: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hanston can differ from the 67849 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hanston's frost date answer different questions.