Las Vegas, NV 89061 Frost Dates
Las Vegas, NV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
Las Vegas sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Las Vegas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Las Vegas's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset
About 218 days separate Las Vegas's last and first frost, putting it 13,131 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NV, it ranks 121 of 222.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89061's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one.