Danbury, NE 69026 Frost Dates
Danbury, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Danbury 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Danbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Danbury's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 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.
Danbury against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate Danbury's last and first frost, putting it 32,555 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 395 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 69026's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Danbury's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Danbury's dates instead of trusting one.