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Lindsay, CA 93267 Frost Dates

93267, near Lindsay, CA: the frost window

Zone 9b

Around 02/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 176 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 284 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lindsay in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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

Lindsay's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Lindsay's last frost

02/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Lindsay against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 284 frost-free days, Lindsay places 4,678 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,734 of 2,555.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 93267: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lindsay can differ from the 93267 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Lindsay's frost date answer different questions.