Peoria, AZ 85001 Frost Dates
Peoria, AZ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/20, about 145 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/15, roughly 331 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Peoria, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 16 weeks until Peoria's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Peoria's last frost
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Peoria against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 331 frost-free days, Peoria places 2,921 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AZ, it ranks 168 of 506.
Learn more
Before leaning on 85001's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Peoria's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Peoria can differ from the 85001 normal.