Caliente, NV 89043 Frost Dates
Caliente, NV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Caliente in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Caliente's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Caliente against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 166 frost-free days, Caliente places 30,416 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 154 of 222.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89043's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Caliente can differ from the 89043 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Caliente's frost date answer different questions.