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Lomita, CA 91124 Frost Dates

91124, near Lomita, CA: the frost window

Zone 10b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/09, about 134 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.

Lomita sits in USDA Zone 10b (35 to 40°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

Lomita's growing season runs out in roughly 19 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 Lomita's last frost

01/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Lomita against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 365 frost-free days, Lomita places 1,374 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 659 of 2,555.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 91124: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Lomita's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lomita's dates instead of trusting one.