Pickrell, NE 68422 Frost Dates
68422, near Pickrell, 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.
Pickrell 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
Pickrell'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.
The actual range around Pickrell's last frost
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.
Pickrell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Pickrell places 28,523 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 169 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68422: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pickrell's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pickrell can differ from the 68422 normal.