Spearville, KS 67876 Frost Dates
67876, near Spearville, KS: the frost window
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 Spearville 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
Spearville'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.
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.
Spearville against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Spearville's last and first frost, putting it 25,414 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 556 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67876: local microclimates, on what one yard in Spearville can differ from the 67876 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Spearville's frost date answer different questions.