Boys Town, NE 68180 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Boys Town, NE, ZIP 68180
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/18, about 183 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Boys Town has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Boys Town's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Boys Town compares
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Boys Town places 23,963 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 39 of 605.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Boys Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Boys Town can differ from the 68180 normal.