Hay Springs, NE 69347 Frost Dates
69347, near Hay Springs, NE: the frost window
Around 05/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 260 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/24, roughly 131 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hay Springs 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
Hay Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Hay Springs's last frost
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hay Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 131 frost-free days, Hay Springs places 38,321 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 602 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69347: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Hay Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hay Springs's dates instead of trusting one.