Winnemucca, NV 89446 Frost Dates
Winnemucca, NV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/23, roughly 268 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/29, roughly 129 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Winnemucca, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Winnemucca's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Winnemucca's last frost
05/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winnemucca against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 129 frost-free days, Winnemucca places 38,450 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 192 of 222.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89446's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Winnemucca can differ from the 89446 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Winnemucca's frost date answer different questions.