Scottsbluff, NE 69361 Frost Dates
69361, near Scottsbluff, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/08, about 253 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Scottsbluff, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Scottsbluff'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 Scottsbluff's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scottsbluff against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 147 frost-free days, Scottsbluff places 35,861 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 541 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69361: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Scottsbluff's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Scottsbluff's dates instead of trusting one.