Burr, NE 68324 Frost Dates
68324, near Burr, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Burr sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Burr's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burr against the rest of the dataset
Burr's growing season runs about 168 days, ranking 29,824 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 276 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68324: local microclimates, on what one yard in Burr can differ from the 68324 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Burr's frost date answer different questions.