Hoskins, NE 68740 Frost Dates
68740, near Hoskins, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hoskins 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
Hoskins's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 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.
Hoskins against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate Hoskins's last and first frost, putting it 32,516 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 390 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68740: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Hoskins's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hoskins's dates instead of trusting one.