Ely, NV 89318 Frost Dates
89318, near Ely, NV: the frost window
Around 05/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 273 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/24, roughly 119 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Ely, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ely's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Ely's last frost
05/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ely against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 119 frost-free days, Ely places 39,140 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 198 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89318: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ely can differ from the 89318 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Ely's frost date answer different questions.