Bloomington, NE 68929 Frost Dates
68929, near Bloomington, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Bloomington 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
Bloomington's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Bloomington'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.
Bloomington against the rest of the dataset
Bloomington's growing season runs about 161 days, ranking 32,183 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 374 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68929: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Bloomington's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bloomington's dates instead of trusting one.