Schuyler, NE 68661 Frost Dates
Schuyler, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, 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 Schuyler, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Schuyler's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Schuyler's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 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.
Schuyler against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Schuyler's last and first frost, putting it 27,435 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 128 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68661's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Schuyler's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Schuyler can differ from the 68661 normal.