Wright, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Wright, 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 Wright lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wright — the short answer
Wright, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 202 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~202
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Wright's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wright's 202-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wright
Each reading below is measured for Wright itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWright runs about 202 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
MeasuredWright 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 Wright is in
Wright sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Wright's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ford County.
What Grows in Wright
Every plant below cleared Wright's own zone 6b and its 202-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wright?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Wright
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wright. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WRIGHT GROUND WATER CONTAMINATIONSuperfund · 2000 ft
- RIGHT COOP ASSN-MAIN FACILITYBrownfields · 2100 ft
- WRIGHT CARDTROLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- WRIGHT IMPROVEMENT DIST.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- BUEHNE, OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KOCH NITROGEN COMPANY, LLCBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- KOCH NITROGEN COMPANY, LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- LIQUID CARBONIC CARBON DIOXIDEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- LINDE - DODGE CITY, KSBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- LINDE - DODGE CITY, KSToxics Release Inventory · 2.4 mi
- 26S 24W 02DA 01Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- FEDERAL EXPRESS - ZDODBrownfields · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wright'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 Wright.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wright
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wright
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wright, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wright — CAFO (9 sites) and Superfund (7 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Wright
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Wright
Everything above resolves to Wright as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 town 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 Wright Average
Wright Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Wright
- ●One soil character for all of Wright
- ●Frost dates read at Wright's scale: Apr 8 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wright's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wright
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wright, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Wright — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wright average
How we know this about Wright
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Wright’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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Wright
When does frost risk typically end in Wright?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wright typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Wright?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wright typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 202 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wright?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wright sees about 202 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 13, about 167 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wright?
The federal record around Wright is a meaningful one — 391 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (138), the nearest Superfund record about 0.4 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Wright?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wright's scale — its 6b band and its 202-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wright'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 Wright’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wright's own scale — its own ~202-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,318 acres it covers and 391 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wright's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wright's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Oct 27 and the ~202-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 391 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wright, the closest Superfund record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wright's boundary and the 1,318 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~202-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wright's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wright's 1,318 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ford County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ford 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 Ford County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wright's 1,318 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wright you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,318 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.4 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 Wright-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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