Caliente, NV 89008 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Caliente, NV, ZIP 89008
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 156 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Caliente, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Caliente has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Caliente compares
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Caliente places 33,731 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 159 of 222.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Caliente can differ from the 89008 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Caliente's frost date answer different questions.