Springerville, AZ 87829 Frost Dates
87829, near Springerville, AZ: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/01, roughly 277 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 117 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Springerville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Springerville's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
06/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Springerville against the rest of the dataset
About 117 days separate Springerville's last and first frost, putting it 39,248 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AZ, it ranks 494 of 506.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87829: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Springerville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Springerville's dates instead of trusting one.