Avondale, AZ 85061 Frost Dates
Avondale, AZ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/14, roughly 139 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/22, roughly 343 days after the last spring frost.
Avondale sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
With roughly 17 weeks until Avondale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Avondale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 343 frost-free days, Avondale places 2,476 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AZ, it ranks 90 of 506.
Learn more
Before leaning on 85061's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Avondale can differ from the 85061 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Avondale's frost date answer different questions.