Kenesaw, NE 68956 Frost Dates
Kenesaw, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 176 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 Kenesaw, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Kenesaw'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
04/22 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.
Kenesaw against the rest of the dataset
Kenesaw's growing season runs about 176 days, ranking 26,552 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 101 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68956's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Kenesaw's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kenesaw's dates instead of trusting one.