Rushville, NE 69360 Frost Dates
69360, near Rushville, NE: the frost window
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 137 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rushville 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
Rushville'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.
The actual range around Rushville's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rushville against the rest of the dataset
Rushville's growing season runs about 137 days, ranking 37,543 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 594 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69360: the frost range, on how to read the range around Rushville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Rushville can differ from the 69360 normal.