Pawnee City, NE 68420 Frost Dates
Pawnee City, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Pawnee City 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 Pawnee City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 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.
Pawnee City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Pawnee City places 28,008 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 144 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68420's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pawnee City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pawnee City can differ from the 68420 normal.