Taylor, AZ 85923 Frost Dates
85923, near Taylor, AZ: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/23, about 268 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 135 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Taylor, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Taylor's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/23 isn't a guarantee
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.
Taylor against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 135 frost-free days, Taylor places 37,854 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AZ, it ranks 487 of 506.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 85923: local microclimates, on what one yard in Taylor can differ from the 85923 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Taylor's frost date answer different questions.