Ohiowa, NE 68416 Frost Dates
Ohiowa, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Ohiowa 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Ohiowa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ohiowa against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Ohiowa places 25,937 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 91 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68416's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Ohiowa's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Ohiowa's dates instead of trusting one.