Orange Cove, CA 93641 Frost Dates
Orange Cove, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 06/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 277 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 132 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 Orange Cove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Orange Cove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Orange Cove's last frost
06/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orange Cove against the rest of the dataset
Orange Cove's growing season runs about 132 days, ranking 38,180 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,454 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93641's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Orange Cove can differ from the 93641 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Orange Cove's frost date answer different questions.