Palisade, NE 69040 Frost Dates
69040, near Palisade, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Palisade 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
Palisade's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 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.
Palisade against the rest of the dataset
Palisade's growing season runs about 166 days, ranking 30,448 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 289 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69040: the frost range, on how to read the range around Palisade's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Palisade can differ from the 69040 normal.