Platte Center, NE 68653 Frost Dates
Platte Center, NE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Platte Center in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Platte Center's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Platte Center's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 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.
Platte Center against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Platte Center places 27,609 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NE, it ranks 136 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68653's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Platte Center can differ from the 68653 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Platte Center's frost date answer different questions.