Yucca Valley, CA 92285 Frost Dates
92285, near Yucca Valley, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/01, about 185 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 271 days after the last spring frost.
Yucca Valley sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Yucca Valley's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Yucca Valley's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yucca Valley against the rest of the dataset
Yucca Valley's growing season runs about 271 days, ranking 5,422 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,878 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 92285: the frost range, on how to read the range around Yucca Valley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Yucca Valley can differ from the 92285 normal.