Madera, CA 93614 Frost Dates
93614, near Madera, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Madera in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Madera's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Madera's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Madera against the rest of the dataset
Madera's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,078 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,078 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 93614: local microclimates, on what one yard in Madera can differ from the 93614 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Madera's frost date answer different questions.