Queen Creek, AZ 85298 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Queen Creek, AZ, ZIP 85298
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/01, roughly 157 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/11, about 315 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Queen Creek in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Queen Creek has about 15 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Queen Creek's last frost
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 02/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Queen Creek compares
At roughly 315 frost-free days, Queen Creek places 3,410 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AZ, it ranks 213 of 506.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Queen Creek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Queen Creek's dates instead of trusting one.