Fairmont, NE 68354 Frost Dates
68354, near Fairmont, 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 10/14, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Fairmont, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fairmont'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.
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 04/10 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.
Fairmont against the rest of the dataset
Fairmont's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 29,173 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 211 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68354: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fairmont can differ from the 68354 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Fairmont's frost date answer different questions.