Waco, NE 68460 Frost Dates
68460, near Waco, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
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 Waco, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Waco's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Waco's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waco against the rest of the dataset
Waco's growing season runs about 178 days, ranking 25,902 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 89 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68460: the frost range, on how to read the range around Waco's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Waco can differ from the 68460 normal.