Humphrey, NE 68642 Frost Dates
Humphrey, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Humphrey sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Humphrey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Humphrey's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Humphrey against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Humphrey places 32,444 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 381 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68642's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Humphrey's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Humphrey's dates instead of trusting one.