Bellevue, NE 68147 Frost Dates
Bellevue, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Bellevue sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Bellevue's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellevue against the rest of the dataset
Bellevue's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,741 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 18 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68147's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bellevue's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellevue can differ from the 68147 normal.