Crawford, NE 69339 Frost Dates
69339, near Crawford, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/13, about 258 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 138 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Crawford 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
Crawford'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crawford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 138 frost-free days, Crawford places 37,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 590 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69339: the frost range, on how to read the range around Crawford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Crawford can differ from the 69339 normal.