Winnetoon, NE 68789 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Winnetoon, NE, ZIP 68789
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 158 frost-free days later.
Winnetoon 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5a around Winnetoon has about 6 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Winnetoon compares
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Winnetoon places 33,179 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 426 of 605.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Winnetoon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Winnetoon's dates instead of trusting one.