Bayard, NE 69334 Frost Dates
69334, near Bayard, NE: the frost window
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bayard in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Bayard'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 Bayard's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bayard against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Bayard places 33,712 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 453 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69334: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bayard can differ from the 69334 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Bayard's frost date answer different questions.