Valentine, NE 69201 Frost Dates
Valentine, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Valentine sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Valentine's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Valentine'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 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Valentine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Valentine places 31,398 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 335 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 69201's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Valentine can differ from the 69201 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Valentine's frost date answer different questions.