Irvine, CA 92836 Frost Dates
Irvine, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/05, about 130 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/25, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10b (35 to 40°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Irvine, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until Irvine's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Irvine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Irvine places 283 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 78 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 92836's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10b and Irvine's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Irvine's dates instead of trusting one.