Dunbar, NE 68346 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Dunbar, NE, ZIP 68346
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 182 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dunbar in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Dunbar 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 Dunbar'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. 05/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dunbar compares
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Dunbar places 24,344 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 46 of 605.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Dunbar can differ from the 68346 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Dunbar's frost date answer different questions.