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Corcoran, CA 93201 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Corcoran, CA, ZIP 93201

Zone 9a

Around 02/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 171 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/27, about 285 frost-free days later.

Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Corcoran, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 9a around Corcoran has about 13 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Corcoran's last frost

02/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Corcoran compares

At roughly 285 frost-free days, Corcoran places 4,626 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,725 of 2,555.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Corcoran's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Corcoran can differ from the 93201 normal.