Corcoran, CA 93282 Frost Dates
Corcoran, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/15, about 171 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 285 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Corcoran's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Corcoran's last frost
02/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Corcoran against the rest of the dataset
Corcoran's growing season runs about 285 days, ranking 4,628 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,727 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93282's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Corcoran's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Corcoran can differ from the 93282 normal.