Mesquite, NV 89034 Frost Dates
89034, near Mesquite, NV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Mesquite sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mesquite's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Mesquite's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mesquite against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Mesquite's last and first frost, putting it 8,943 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NV, it ranks 114 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89034: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Mesquite's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Mesquite's dates instead of trusting one.