Carson, NV 89712 Frost Dates
Carson, NV: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Carson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Carson's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 152 frost-free days, Carson places 34,676 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 174 of 222.
Learn more
Before leaning on 89712's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Carson can differ from the 89712 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Carson's frost date answer different questions.