Burbank, CA 91042 Frost Dates
Burbank, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 12/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 125 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/28, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Burbank sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until Burbank's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Burbank's last frost
12/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burbank against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Burbank places 490 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 206 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 91042's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Burbank's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Burbank can differ from the 91042 normal.