Chambers, NE 68711 Frost Dates
Chambers, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Chambers sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 5 weeks until Chambers's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chambers against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 150 frost-free days, Chambers places 35,408 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 517 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68711's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Chambers's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Chambers can differ from the 68711 normal.