Milford, NE 68405 Frost Dates
68405, near Milford, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Milford sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Milford's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 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.
Milford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Milford places 29,468 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 233 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68405: the frost range, on how to read the range around Milford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Milford can differ from the 68405 normal.