Lindsay, CA 93275 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lindsay, CA?
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/26, about 249 frost-free days later.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Lindsay, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 13 weeks of growing season left in Lindsay before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lindsay's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lindsay compares
At roughly 249 frost-free days, Lindsay places 7,615 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,093 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9b and Lindsay's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Lindsay's dates instead of trusting one.