Gothenburg, NE 69138 Frost Dates
69138, near Gothenburg, NE: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gothenburg 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
Gothenburg'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 Gothenburg's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gothenburg against the rest of the dataset
About 162 days separate Gothenburg's last and first frost, putting it 31,730 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 352 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69138: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gothenburg can differ from the 69138 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Gothenburg's frost date answer different questions.