Hastings, NE 68902 Frost Dates
Hastings, NE: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Hastings sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Hastings's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hastings's last frost
04/22 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 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hastings against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate Hastings's last and first frost, putting it 26,383 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 97 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68902's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hastings can differ from the 68902 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Hastings's frost date answer different questions.