Boys Town, NE 68172 Frost Dates
68172, near Boys Town, NE: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Boys Town 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
Boys Town'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.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Boys Town against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Boys Town's last and first frost, putting it 23,958 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 34 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68172: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Boys Town's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Boys Town's dates instead of trusting one.