Meadow Grove, NE 68752 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Meadow Grove, NE, ZIP 68752
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/04, about 156 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Meadow Grove in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Meadow Grove has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Meadow Grove's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Meadow Grove compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Meadow Grove places 33,830 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 462 of 605.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Meadow Grove's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Meadow Grove's dates instead of trusting one.