Yerington, NV 96133 Frost Dates
96133, near Yerington, NV: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/12, roughly 257 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Yerington in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Yerington's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Yerington's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yerington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 145 frost-free days, Yerington places 36,205 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NV, it ranks 185 of 222.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 96133: local microclimates, on what one yard in Yerington can differ from the 96133 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Yerington's frost date answer different questions.