Cedar Bluffs, NE 68621 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cedar Bluffs, NE, ZIP 68621
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 172 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cedar Bluffs in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Cedar Bluffs has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Cedar Bluffs's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cedar Bluffs compares
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Cedar Bluffs places 28,434 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 158 of 605.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Cedar Bluffs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedar Bluffs can differ from the 68621 normal.