Upland, NE 68981 Frost Dates
68981, near Upland, NE: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Upland 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
Upland'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Upland against the rest of the dataset
About 161 days separate Upland's last and first frost, putting it 32,180 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 373 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68981: the frost range, on how to read the range around Upland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Upland can differ from the 68981 normal.