Denton, NE 68523 Frost Dates
68523, near Denton, NE: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Denton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Denton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 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.
Denton against the rest of the dataset
Denton's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,829 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 200 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68523: the frost range, on how to read the range around Denton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Denton can differ from the 68523 normal.