Loup City, NE 68853 Frost Dates
68853, near Loup City, NE: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 158 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 Loup City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Loup City's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Loup City's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Loup City against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate Loup City's last and first frost, putting it 33,067 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 419 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 68853: local microclimates, on what one yard in Loup City can differ from the 68853 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Loup City's frost date answer different questions.