Lindsay, NE 68644 Frost Dates
Lindsay, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lindsay 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Lindsay's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lindsay'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.
Lindsay against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Lindsay places 32,515 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 389 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68644's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lindsay's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lindsay can differ from the 68644 normal.