Barneston, NE 68309 Frost Dates
68309, near Barneston, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Barneston in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Barneston's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barneston against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Barneston's last and first frost, putting it 25,530 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 79 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68309: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Barneston's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Barneston's dates instead of trusting one.