Winslow, AZ 86034 Frost Dates
Winslow, AZ: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/16, about 261 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winslow 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 Winslow's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Winslow's last frost
05/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winslow against the rest of the dataset
About 147 days separate Winslow's last and first frost, putting it 35,876 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AZ, it ranks 464 of 506.
Learn more
Before leaning on 86034's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Winslow can differ from the 86034 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Winslow's frost date answer different questions.