Ingalls, KS 67853 Frost Dates
Ingalls, KS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ingalls 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 Ingalls's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ingalls's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 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.
Ingalls against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Ingalls's last and first frost, putting it 24,323 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 475 of 745.
Learn more
Before leaning on 67853's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Ingalls's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Ingalls's dates instead of trusting one.