Arcadia, CA 91006 Frost Dates
Arcadia, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/04, about 129 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/02, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Arcadia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 18 weeks until Arcadia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Arcadia's last frost
01/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arcadia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Arcadia places 832 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 344 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 91006's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Arcadia's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Arcadia can differ from the 91006 normal.