Lodgepole, NE 69149 Frost Dates
69149, near Lodgepole, 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 10/04, roughly 146 days after the last spring frost.
Lodgepole 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
Lodgepole'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.
The actual range around Lodgepole'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 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lodgepole against the rest of the dataset
About 146 days separate Lodgepole's last and first frost, putting it 36,127 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 552 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69149: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lodgepole's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lodgepole can differ from the 69149 normal.