Morse Bluff, NE 68648 Frost Dates
68648, near Morse Bluff, NE: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Morse Bluff, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Morse Bluff's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Morse Bluff against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Morse Bluff's last and first frost, putting it 27,651 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 142 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68648: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Morse Bluff's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Morse Bluff's dates instead of trusting one.