Indio, CA 92201 Frost Dates
92201, near Indio, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 12/31, roughly 125 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/27, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Indio in Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Indio'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
12/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Indio against the rest of the dataset
Indio's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 557 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 243 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 92201: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Indio's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Indio's dates instead of trusting one.