Grand Island, NE 68801 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Grand Island, NE, ZIP 68801
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 174 frost-free days later.
Grand Island 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Grand Island has about 7 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 Grand Island's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Grand Island compares
Grand Island's growing season runs about 174 days, ranking 27,330 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 125 of 605.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Grand Island's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Grand Island's dates instead of trusting one.