Byron, NE 68325 Frost Dates
68325, near Byron, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Byron sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Byron'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 Byron'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.
Byron against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Byron places 28,547 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 174 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68325: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Byron's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Byron's dates instead of trusting one.