South Bend, NE 68058 Frost Dates
68058, near South Bend, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
South Bend sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
South Bend'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.
The actual range around South Bend's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
South Bend against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, South Bend places 27,293 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 124 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68058: the frost range, on how to read the range around South Bend's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in South Bend can differ from the 68058 normal.