Raymond, NE 68428 Frost Dates
68428, near Raymond, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Raymond 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
Raymond'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.
Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee
04/22 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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Raymond against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Raymond places 27,270 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 121 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68428: the frost range, on how to read the range around Raymond's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Raymond can differ from the 68428 normal.