Boys Town, NE 68183 Frost Dates
68183, near Boys Town, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Boys Town's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,965 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 41 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68183: 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.