Tekamah, NE 68061 Frost Dates
Tekamah, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Tekamah sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Tekamah's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Tekamah's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tekamah against the rest of the dataset
About 165 days separate Tekamah's last and first frost, putting it 30,615 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 293 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68061's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Tekamah can differ from the 68061 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Tekamah's frost date answer different questions.