Satanta, KS 67870 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Satanta, KS, ZIP 67870
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 179 frost-free days later.
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 Satanta, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Satanta has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Satanta's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Satanta compares
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Satanta places 25,398 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 552 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Satanta's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Satanta can differ from the 67870 normal.