Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ 85926 Frost Dates
Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/20, about 265 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 142 days after the last spring frost.
Pinetop-Lakeside sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 6 weeks until Pinetop-Lakeside's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/20 isn't a guarantee
05/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pinetop-Lakeside against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 142 frost-free days, Pinetop-Lakeside places 36,730 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AZ, it ranks 477 of 506.
Learn more
Before leaning on 85926's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Pinetop-Lakeside's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pinetop-Lakeside's dates instead of trusting one.