Kearney, NE 68845 Frost Dates
Kearney, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kearney 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 6 weeks until Kearney's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Kearney's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kearney against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Kearney places 31,632 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 346 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68845's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Kearney's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kearney's dates instead of trusting one.