Osmond, NE 68765 Frost Dates
68765, near Osmond, 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 10/06, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Osmond 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
Osmond'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.
The actual range around Osmond's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 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.
Osmond against the rest of the dataset
Osmond's growing season runs about 160 days, ranking 32,456 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 384 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68765: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Osmond's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Osmond's dates instead of trusting one.