Carson, NV 89711 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Carson, NV, ZIP 89711
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 152 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Carson, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Carson has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Carson's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Carson compares
At roughly 152 frost-free days, Carson places 34,675 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 173 of 222.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Carson can differ from the 89711 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Carson's frost date answer different questions.