Cotesfield, NE 68835 Frost Dates
Cotesfield, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cotesfield in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Cotesfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cotesfield's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cotesfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Cotesfield places 28,559 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 180 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68835's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cotesfield's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cotesfield can differ from the 68835 normal.