Eustis, NE 69028 Frost Dates
69028, near Eustis, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eustis in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Eustis'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.
The actual range around Eustis's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eustis against the rest of the dataset
About 165 days separate Eustis's last and first frost, putting it 30,719 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 301 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69028: local microclimates, on what one yard in Eustis can differ from the 69028 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Eustis's frost date answer different questions.