Taft, CA 93276 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Taft, CA, ZIP 93276
Around 02/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 165 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/26, about 289 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 Taft, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Taft 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Taft compares
At roughly 289 frost-free days, Taft places 4,548 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,713 of 2,555.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Taft can differ from the 93276 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Taft's frost date answer different questions.