Dawson, NE 68337 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Dawson, NE, ZIP 68337
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 180 frost-free days later.
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 Dawson, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Dawson has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Dawson's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dawson compares
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Dawson places 25,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 60 of 605.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Dawson can differ from the 68337 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Dawson's frost date answer different questions.