Hazard, NE 68844 Frost Dates
68844, near Hazard, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Hazard 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
Hazard's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/04 isn't a guarantee
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hazard against the rest of the dataset
About 150 days separate Hazard's last and first frost, putting it 35,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 523 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68844: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Hazard's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hazard's dates instead of trusting one.