Moscow, KS 67952 Frost Dates
67952, near Moscow, KS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Moscow 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Moscow'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.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moscow against the rest of the dataset
Moscow's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 24,019 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within KS, it ranks 458 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67952: the frost range, on how to read the range around Moscow's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Moscow can differ from the 67952 normal.