North Las Vegas, NV 89087 Frost Dates
89087, near North Las Vegas, NV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/01, roughly 157 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/08, roughly 311 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Las Vegas in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
North Las Vegas's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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 North Las Vegas's last frost
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset
North Las Vegas's growing season runs about 311 days, ranking 3,515 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NV, it ranks 73 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89087: the frost range, on how to read the range around North Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in North Las Vegas can differ from the 89087 normal.