Beaver City, NE 68926 Frost Dates
68926, near Beaver City, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 150 days after the last spring frost.
Beaver City 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
Beaver City'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beaver City against the rest of the dataset
Beaver City's growing season runs about 150 days, ranking 35,374 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 513 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68926: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beaver City can differ from the 68926 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Beaver City's frost date answer different questions.