Burbank, CA 91602 Frost Dates
91602, near Burbank, CA: the frost window
Around 01/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 127 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/26, roughly 364 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
Burbank's growing season runs out in roughly 17 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 Burbank's last frost
01/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burbank against the rest of the dataset
About 364 days separate Burbank's last and first frost, putting it 2,032 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 923 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 91602: the frost range, on how to read the range around Burbank's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Burbank can differ from the 91602 normal.