Marana, AZ 85654 Frost Dates
85654, near Marana, AZ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/23, about 179 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/06, roughly 287 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 Marana, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Marana's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Marana against the rest of the dataset
Marana's growing season runs about 287 days, ranking 4,578 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AZ, it ranks 282 of 506.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 85654: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Marana's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Marana's dates instead of trusting one.