Colon, NE 68018 Frost Dates
Colon, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. 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 Colon 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 Colon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Colon's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Colon against the rest of the dataset
Colon's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,538 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 172 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68018's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Colon can differ from the 68018 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Colon's frost date answer different questions.