Fremont, NE 68025 Frost Dates
68025, near Fremont, NE: the frost window
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.
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 Fremont, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fremont's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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.
Fremont against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Fremont's last and first frost, putting it 28,169 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 146 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68025: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fremont can differ from the 68025 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Fremont's frost date answer different questions.