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North Las Vegas, NV 89085 Frost Dates

North Las Vegas, NV: when does the frost end?

Zone 9a

Around 01/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 149 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/10, roughly 323 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 North Las Vegas, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 15 weeks until North 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 North Las Vegas's last frost

01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

North Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset

About 323 days separate North Las Vegas's last and first frost, putting it 3,252 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NV, it ranks 66 of 222.

Learn more

Before leaning on 89085's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around North Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in North Las Vegas can differ from the 89085 normal.