Halsey, NE 69135 Frost Dates
Halsey, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Halsey 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Halsey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Halsey's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Halsey against the rest of the dataset
About 143 days separate Halsey's last and first frost, putting it 36,681 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 572 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 69135's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Halsey's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Halsey's dates instead of trusting one.