Wolbach, NE 68882 Frost Dates
Wolbach, NE: when does the frost end?
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 149 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 Wolbach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Wolbach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wolbach's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wolbach against the rest of the dataset
About 149 days separate Wolbach's last and first frost, putting it 35,579 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NE, it ranks 535 of 605.
Learn more
Before leaning on 68882's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wolbach's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wolbach can differ from the 68882 normal.