Sidney, NE 69160 Frost Dates
69160, near Sidney, NE: the frost window
Around 05/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 253 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 149 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 Sidney, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sidney'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 Sidney's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sidney against the rest of the dataset
About 149 days separate Sidney's last and first frost, putting it 35,514 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 527 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69160: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sidney's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sidney can differ from the 69160 normal.