Kanorado, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kanorado, 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 Kanorado lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kanorado — the short answer
Kanorado, Kansas: USDA zone 6a, about 183 days between hard freezes, across 167 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~183
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 167 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 6a is Kanorado's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kanorado's 183-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kanorado
Each reading below is measured for Kanorado itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKanorado runs about 183 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredKanorado sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Kanorado is in
Kanorado sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Kanorado's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sherman County.
What Grows in Kanorado
Every plant below cleared Kanorado's own zone 6a and its 183-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kanorado?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Kanorado
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kanorado. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 08S 42W 20CDC 01Nitrate · 450 ft
- FRONTIER AG INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- REID GRAIN OF KANORADO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- 08S 42W 20CDD 01Nitrate · 1100 ft
- 08S 42W 29BAC 01Nitrate · 1200 ft
- 08S 42W 20CAC 01Nitrate · 1500 ft
- KING'S CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- WINTER FLYINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- 08S 42W 29ACB 01Nitrate · 2500 ft
- 09S 42W 02CBB 01Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- J L LIVENGOOD FEEDLOTCAFO · 3.9 mi
- 08S 42W 04BBC 01Nitrate · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kanorado'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 Kanorado.
Total Sites
51
within ~10 miles of Kanorado
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kanorado
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kanorado
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kanorado, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 42 sites within ~10 miles of Kanorado. 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 Kanorado
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 Kanorado average
Your land is one point inside Kanorado
Everything above resolves to Kanorado as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 167 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 Kanorado Average
Kanorado Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Kanorado
- ●One soil character for all of Kanorado
- ●Frost dates read at Kanorado's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kanorado's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kanorado
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kanorado, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kanorado averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kanorado — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kanorado average
How we know this about Kanorado
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 Kanorado’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 Kanorado
When does frost risk typically end in Kanorado?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kanorado typically lands around Apr 19, 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 May 10.
When is the first frost in Kanorado?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kanorado typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 183 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kanorado?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kanorado sees about 183 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 5, about 148 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kanorado?
The federal record around Kanorado shows 51 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (42), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Kanorado?
From about Sep 19 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 Oct 19 (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 Oct 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kanorado's scale — its 6a band and its 183-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kanorado'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 Kanorado’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kanorado's own scale — its own ~183-day season between 28°F freezes, the 167 acres it covers and 51 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kanorado's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kanorado's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 19 and the ~183-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 51 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kanorado, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kanorado's boundary and the 167 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~183-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kanorado's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kanorado's 167 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sherman County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sherman 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 Sherman County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kanorado's 167 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kanorado you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 167 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Kanorado-wide figureread your own land →
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