Show Low, AZ 85911 Frost Dates
Show Low, AZ: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/23, roughly 268 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 135 days after the last spring frost.
Show Low sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 5 weeks until Show Low's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Show Low's last frost
05/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Show Low against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 135 frost-free days, Show Low places 37,831 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AZ, it ranks 485 of 506.
Learn more
Before leaning on 85911's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Show Low's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Show Low can differ from the 85911 normal.