Needles, CA 92332 Frost Dates
92332, near Needles, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/06, about 190 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/08, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
Needles 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
Needles's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Needles against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Needles places 5,385 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,868 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 92332: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Needles's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Needles's dates instead of trusting one.