Pierce, NE 68767 Frost Dates
Pierce, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 160 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 Pierce, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Pierce's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pierce'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.
Pierce against the rest of the dataset
Pierce's growing season runs about 160 days, ranking 32,393 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 378 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68767's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pierce can differ from the 68767 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Pierce's frost date answer different questions.