Bartley, NE 69020 Frost Dates
69020, near Bartley, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Bartley 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
Bartley'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.
The actual range around Bartley's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bartley against the rest of the dataset
Bartley's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,831 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 463 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69020: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Bartley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bartley's dates instead of trusting one.