Fallon, NV 89022 Frost Dates
Fallon, NV: when does the frost end?
Around 05/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 269 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 126 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Fallon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 4 weeks until Fallon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fallon's last frost
05/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fallon against the rest of the dataset
About 126 days separate Fallon's last and first frost, putting it 38,682 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NV, it ranks 194 of 222.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89022's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fallon can differ from the 89022 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Fallon's frost date answer different questions.