Yerington, NV 89447 Frost Dates
89447, near Yerington, NV: the frost window
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Yerington 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
Yerington'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.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yerington against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Yerington's last and first frost, putting it 29,988 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NV, it ranks 152 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89447: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Yerington's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Yerington's dates instead of trusting one.