Winnemucca, NV 89426 Frost Dates
89426, near Winnemucca, NV: the frost window
Around 06/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 281 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/13, roughly 95 days after the last spring frost.
Winnemucca sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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
Winnemucca's growing season runs out in roughly 2 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 Winnemucca's last frost
06/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winnemucca against the rest of the dataset
Winnemucca's growing season runs about 95 days, ranking 39,808 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NV, it ranks 214 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89426: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Winnemucca's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Winnemucca's dates instead of trusting one.