Scribner, NE 68057 Frost Dates
68057, near Scribner, NE: the frost window
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, 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 Scribner, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Scribner'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
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scribner against the rest of the dataset
Scribner's growing season runs about 165 days, ranking 30,656 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 295 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68057: the frost range, on how to read the range around Scribner's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Scribner can differ from the 68057 normal.