Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ 85935 Frost Dates
Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/22, about 267 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 138 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pinetop-Lakeside in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
The actual range around Pinetop-Lakeside's last frost
05/22 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 06/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pinetop-Lakeside against the rest of the dataset
About 138 days separate Pinetop-Lakeside's last and first frost, putting it 37,388 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AZ, it ranks 483 of 506.
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Before leaning on 85935's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pinetop-Lakeside can differ from the 85935 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pinetop-Lakeside's frost date answer different questions.