Reno, NV 89505 Frost Dates
89505, near Reno, 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 10/27, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Reno sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Reno's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Reno against the rest of the dataset
Reno's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,054 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NV, it ranks 142 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 89505: local microclimates, on what one yard in Reno can differ from the 89505 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Reno's frost date answer different questions.