Queen Creek, AZ 85127 Frost Dates
Queen Creek, AZ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/01, about 157 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/11, roughly 315 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Queen Creek, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Queen Creek'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
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Queen Creek against the rest of the dataset
About 315 days separate Queen Creek's last and first frost, putting it 3,406 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AZ, it ranks 209 of 506.
Learn more
Before leaning on 85127's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Queen Creek can differ from the 85127 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Queen Creek's frost date answer different questions.