Lake Havasu City, AZ 92267 Frost Dates
92267, near Lake Havasu City, AZ: the frost window
Around 01/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 132 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/31, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Havasu City in Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Havasu City's growing season runs out in roughly 18 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/07 isn't a guarantee
01/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Havasu City against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Lake Havasu City's last and first frost, putting it 781 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AZ, it ranks 13 of 506.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 92267: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Havasu City can differ from the 92267 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Lake Havasu City's frost date answer different questions.