Caliente, NV 89001 Frost Dates
89001, near Caliente, NV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Caliente in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Caliente's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Caliente's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Caliente against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Caliente's last and first frost, putting it 22,118 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NV, it ranks 130 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89001: the frost range, on how to read the range around Caliente's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Caliente can differ from the 89001 normal.