Wallace, NE 69132 Frost Dates
69132, near Wallace, NE: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Wallace sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wallace's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wallace against the rest of the dataset
Wallace's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,882 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NE, it ranks 502 of 605.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 69132: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wallace's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wallace can differ from the 69132 normal.