Arlington, NE 68002 Frost Dates
Arlington, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Arlington sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Arlington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Arlington's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arlington against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Arlington's last and first frost, putting it 28,382 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 151 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68002's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Arlington's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Arlington can differ from the 68002 normal.