Fairfield, NE 68938 Frost Dates
Fairfield, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fairfield in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 8 weeks until Fairfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 181 frost-free days, Fairfield places 24,707 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 51 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68938's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Fairfield's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fairfield's dates instead of trusting one.