Craig, NE 68019 Frost Dates
Craig, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Craig, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Craig's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Craig's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 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.
Craig against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Craig places 30,758 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 308 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68019's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Craig's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Craig can differ from the 68019 normal.