Hooper, NE 68026 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hooper, NE, ZIP 68026
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 172 frost-free days later.
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 Hooper, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Hooper has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hooper compares
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Hooper places 28,412 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 153 of 605.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Hooper's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Hooper can differ from the 68026 normal.