Cedar Bluffs, NE 68015 Frost Dates
Cedar Bluffs, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cedar Bluffs in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Cedar Bluffs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Cedar Bluffs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Cedar Bluffs places 28,433 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 157 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68015's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedar Bluffs can differ from the 68015 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Cedar Bluffs's frost date answer different questions.