Dixon, NE 68732 Frost Dates
68732, near Dixon, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Dixon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dixon's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Dixon's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dixon against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate Dixon's last and first frost, putting it 34,475 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 485 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68732: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Dixon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dixon's dates instead of trusting one.