Verdon, NE 68457 Frost Dates
Verdon, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Verdon 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 Verdon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Verdon's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Verdon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 180 frost-free days, Verdon places 25,095 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 59 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68457's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Verdon's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Verdon's dates instead of trusting one.