Horace, KS 67879 Frost Dates
67879, near Horace, KS: the frost window
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Horace sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Horace's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Horace against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Horace places 32,548 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 730 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67879: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Horace's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Horace's dates instead of trusting one.