Lovelock, NV 89405 Frost Dates
89405, near Lovelock, NV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Lovelock sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Lovelock's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Lovelock's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lovelock against the rest of the dataset
Lovelock's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,478 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NV, it ranks 150 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89405: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lovelock's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lovelock can differ from the 89405 normal.