Phillips, NE 68865 Frost Dates
68865, near Phillips, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 174 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 Phillips, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Phillips's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Phillips's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Phillips against the rest of the dataset
Phillips's growing season runs about 174 days, ranking 27,610 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 137 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68865: local microclimates, on what one yard in Phillips can differ from the 68865 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Phillips's frost date answer different questions.