Needles, CA 86436 Frost Dates
Needles, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/06, roughly 131 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/02, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Needles in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
With roughly 18 weeks until Needles's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Needles's last frost
01/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Needles against the rest of the dataset
Needles's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,895 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 876 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 86436's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Needles's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Needles can differ from the 86436 normal.