Stanton, NE 68779 Frost Dates
68779, near Stanton, NE: the frost window
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Stanton sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Stanton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 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 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stanton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Stanton places 31,019 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 322 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68779: local microclimates, on what one yard in Stanton can differ from the 68779 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Stanton's frost date answer different questions.