Lyons, NE 68038 Frost Dates
68038, near Lyons, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lyons 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
Lyons's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lyons against the rest of the dataset
About 156 days separate Lyons's last and first frost, putting it 33,749 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 456 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68038: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lyons's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lyons can differ from the 68038 normal.