Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ 85929 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ, ZIP 85929
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/22, roughly 267 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 138 frost-free days later.
Pinetop-Lakeside sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Pinetop-Lakeside has about 6 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.
Why 05/22 isn't a guarantee
05/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pinetop-Lakeside compares
About 138 days separate Pinetop-Lakeside's last and first frost, putting it 37,387 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AZ, it ranks 482 of 506.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Pinetop-Lakeside's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Pinetop-Lakeside can differ from the 85929 normal.