Arvin, CA 93243 Frost Dates
Arvin, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Arvin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Arvin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Arvin's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arvin against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate Arvin's last and first frost, putting it 11,756 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,175 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93243's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Arvin can differ from the 93243 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Arvin's frost date answer different questions.