North Las Vegas, NV 88901 Frost Dates
88901, near North Las Vegas, NV: the frost window
Around 01/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 156 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/11, roughly 317 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Las Vegas in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
North Las Vegas's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around North Las Vegas's last frost
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset
North Las Vegas's growing season runs about 317 days, ranking 3,365 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NV, it ranks 67 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88901: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and North Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one.