Malcolm, NE 68402 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Malcolm, NE, ZIP 68402
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 175 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Malcolm, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Malcolm has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Malcolm's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Malcolm compares
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Malcolm places 27,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 116 of 605.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Malcolm's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Malcolm can differ from the 68402 normal.