Bartlett, NE 68622 Frost Dates
Bartlett, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Bartlett sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 6 weeks until Bartlett's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bartlett's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bartlett against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate Bartlett's last and first frost, putting it 34,470 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 482 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68622's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Bartlett's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bartlett's dates instead of trusting one.