Bruning, NE 68322 Frost Dates
68322, near Bruning, NE: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bruning 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
Bruning'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.
The actual range around Bruning's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 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.
Bruning against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Bruning places 28,508 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 164 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68322: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bruning can differ from the 68322 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Bruning's frost date answer different questions.