Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ 85940 Frost Dates
Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ: when does the frost end?
Around 05/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 265 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 142 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
05/20 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 36,732 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AZ, it ranks 479 of 506.
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Before leaning on 85940's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pinetop-Lakeside can differ from the 85940 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pinetop-Lakeside's frost date answer different questions.