Halsey, NE 69142 Frost Dates
69142, near Halsey, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/09, about 254 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Halsey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Halsey's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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
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 36,682 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 573 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69142: local microclimates, on what one yard in Halsey can differ from the 69142 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Halsey's frost date answer different questions.