Odell, NE 68415 Frost Dates
68415, near Odell, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Odell sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Odell'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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Odell against the rest of the dataset
Odell's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,513 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 166 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68415: local microclimates, on what one yard in Odell can differ from the 68415 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Odell's frost date answer different questions.