Avondale, AZ 85067 Frost Dates
85067, near Avondale, AZ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/14, about 139 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/22, roughly 343 days after the last spring frost.
Avondale sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Avondale's growing season runs out in roughly 17 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 Avondale's last frost
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
About 343 days separate Avondale's last and first frost, putting it 2,482 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AZ, it ranks 96 of 506.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 85067: the frost range, on how to read the range around Avondale's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Avondale can differ from the 85067 normal.