Liberal, KS 67901 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Liberal, KS?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 186 frost-free days later.
Liberal 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Liberal before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Liberal's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Liberal compares
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Liberal places 22,737 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within KS, it ranks 379 of 745.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Liberal's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Liberal can differ from the 67901 normal.