Bellwood, NE 68624 Frost Dates
68624, near Bellwood, NE: the frost window
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bellwood in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bellwood's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bellwood's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellwood against the rest of the dataset
Bellwood's growing season runs about 168 days, ranking 29,772 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 263 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68624: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bellwood can differ from the 68624 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Bellwood's frost date answer different questions.