Uehling, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Uehling, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Uehling lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Uehling — the short answer
Uehling, Nebraska: USDA zone 5b, about 189 days between hard freezes, across 143 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~189
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 143 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 5b is Uehling's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Uehling's 189-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Uehling
Each reading below is measured for Uehling itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredUehling runs about 189 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredUehling sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Uehling is in
Uehling sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Uehling's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dodge County.
What Grows in Uehling
Every plant below cleared Uehling's own zone 5b and its 189-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Uehling?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Uehling
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Uehling. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOERNEMANN CATTLE LLCCAFO · 350 ft
- UEHLING GAS N GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BLAHA FEEDLOTCAFO · 0.5 mi
- BASF CORPORATION AT CENTRAL VALLEY AG.Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- MAGNUS STOVER LIVESTOCKCAFO · 1.2 mi
- STOVER LIVESTOCK OPERATIONCAFO · 1.2 mi
- BOWMAN FARMS INCCAFO · 1.3 mi
- CRAIG CATTLE, LLCCAFO · 1.9 mi
- WEITZENKAMP FARMS INCCAFO · 1.9 mi
- 21N 8E28CC 1Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- THOMAS CATTLE COMPANYCAFO · 2.8 mi
- THOMAS CATTLE COCAFO · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Uehling's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Uehling.
Total Sites
75
within ~10 miles of Uehling
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Uehling
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Uehling
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Uehling, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Uehling — CAFO (22 sites) and Nitrate (34 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Uehling
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Your land is one point inside Uehling
Everything above resolves to Uehling as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 143 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Uehling Average
Uehling Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Uehling
- ●One soil character for all of Uehling
- ●Frost dates read at Uehling's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Uehling's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Uehling
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Uehling, Nebraska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Uehling averages can't show:
We read public map data around Uehling — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Uehling average
How we know this about Uehling
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Uehling’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Uehling
When does frost risk typically end in Uehling?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Uehling typically lands around Apr 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 4.
When is the first frost in Uehling?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Uehling typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 189 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Uehling?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Uehling sees about 189 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 5, about 154 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Uehling?
The federal record around Uehling shows 75 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (34), the nearest CAFO record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Uehling?
From about Sep 19 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Uehling's scale — its 5b band and its 189-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Uehling's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Uehling’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Uehling's own scale — its own ~189-day season between 28°F freezes, the 143 acres it covers and 75 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Uehling's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Uehling's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 19 and the ~189-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 75 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Uehling, the closest CAFO record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Uehling's boundary and the 143 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~189-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Uehling's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Uehling's 143 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dodge County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dodge County
- The growing challenges every Nebraska grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Nebraska
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Dodge County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Uehling's 143 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Uehling you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 143 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Uehling-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across NebraskaUehling sits outside our named growing regions, so Nebraska as a whole is its closest context here.