Wildomar, CA 92562 Frost Dates
92562, near Wildomar, CA: the frost window
Around 02/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 158 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/30, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wildomar 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
Wildomar's growing season runs out in roughly 22 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 Wildomar's last frost
02/02 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 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wildomar against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Wildomar places 991 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 418 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 92562: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wildomar's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wildomar can differ from the 92562 normal.