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Las Vegas, NV 89144 Frost Dates

89144, near Las Vegas, NV: the frost window

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.

Las Vegas sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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

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 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.

Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 323 frost-free days, Las Vegas places 3,248 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 62 of 222.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 89144: local microclimates, on what one yard in Las Vegas can differ from the 89144 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions.