Venango, NE 69168 Frost Dates
69168, near Venango, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Venango 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
Venango'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 Venango's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Venango against the rest of the dataset
Venango's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,912 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 506 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69168: the frost range, on how to read the range around Venango's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Venango can differ from the 69168 normal.