Henderson, NV 89116 Frost Dates
Henderson, NV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/21, about 146 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/17, roughly 328 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Henderson, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 16 weeks until Henderson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Henderson's last frost
01/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Henderson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 328 frost-free days, Henderson places 3,148 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 24 of 222.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89116's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Henderson's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Henderson can differ from the 89116 normal.