Bridgeport, NE 69331 Frost Dates
Bridgeport, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
Bridgeport 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Bridgeport's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bridgeport'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 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bridgeport against the rest of the dataset
About 147 days separate Bridgeport's last and first frost, putting it 35,932 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 544 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 69331's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bridgeport can differ from the 69331 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Bridgeport's frost date answer different questions.