Douglas, NE 68344 Frost Dates
Douglas, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
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 Douglas, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Douglas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Douglas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Douglas places 29,797 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 269 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68344's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Douglas can differ from the 68344 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Douglas's frost date answer different questions.