Coats, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Coats, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Coats lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Coats — the short answer
Coats, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 145 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 145 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6b is Coats's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coats's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Coats
Each reading below is measured for Coats itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCoats runs about 212 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCoats sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Coats is in
Coats sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Coats's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Pratt County is mostly Central Great Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Coats
Every plant below cleared Coats's own zone 6b and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Coats?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Coats
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Coats. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 29S 14W 23BBA 01Nitrate · 900 ft
- 29S 14W 04CDD 01Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- 29S 14W 19DDC 01Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- PRATT WIND ENERGY CENTERBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- 29S 13W 06BAA 01Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- CROMER CONSOLIDATED HOLDINGCAFO · 4.9 mi
- 30S 13W 18AA 01Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- 29S 13W 22DDD 01Nitrate · 5.7 mi
- PRATT CTM STATIONBrownfields · 5.9 mi
- 29S 13W 10AABA01 CQS-109Nitrate · 5.9 mi
- 29S 15W 02DAB 01Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- 28S 14W 14CCC 01Nitrate · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coats's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Coats.
Total Sites
87
within ~10 miles of Coats
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Coats
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Coats
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Coats, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 58 sites within ~10 miles of Coats. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Coats
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coats average
Your land is one point inside Coats
Everything above resolves to Coats as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 145 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Coats Average
Coats Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Coats
- ●One soil character for all of Coats
- ●Frost dates read at Coats's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coats's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Coats
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Coats, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Coats averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coats — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coats average
How we know this about Coats
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Coats’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Coats
When does frost risk typically end in Coats?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Coats typically lands around Apr 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 25.
When is the first frost in Coats?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Coats typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Coats?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Coats sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 19, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Coats?
The federal record around Coats shows 87 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (58), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Coats?
From about Oct 3 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Coats's scale — its 6b band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Coats's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Coats’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Coats's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 145 acres it covers and 87 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coats's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Coats's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 2 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 87 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Coats, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Coats's boundary and the 145 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Coats sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Coats's 145 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pratt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pratt County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pratt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coats's 145 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Coats you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 145 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Coats-wide figureread your own land →