Hampton, NE 68843 Frost Dates
Hampton, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Hampton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Hampton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hampton's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hampton against the rest of the dataset
Hampton's growing season runs about 176 days, ranking 26,605 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 104 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68843's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hampton can differ from the 68843 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Hampton's frost date answer different questions.