Boys Town, NE 68176 Frost Dates
68176, near Boys Town, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Boys Town, not a forecast for this year.
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 23,960 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 36 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68176: local microclimates, on what one yard in Boys Town can differ from the 68176 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Boys Town's frost date answer different questions.