Carson, NV 89402 Frost Dates
Carson, NV: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/17, about 262 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 148 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 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 Carson, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Carson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Carson's last frost
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carson against the rest of the dataset
About 148 days separate Carson's last and first frost, putting it 35,617 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NV, it ranks 178 of 222.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89402's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Carson can differ from the 89402 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Carson's frost date answer different questions.