Dalton, NE 69131 Frost Dates
69131, near Dalton, NE: the frost window
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
Dalton 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
Dalton'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.
The actual range around Dalton's last frost
04/28 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 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dalton against the rest of the dataset
About 166 days separate Dalton's last and first frost, putting it 30,446 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 288 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69131: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Dalton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dalton's dates instead of trusting one.