Kerman, CA 93652 Frost Dates
93652, near Kerman, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/14, about 139 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 337 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kerman 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
Kerman's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kerman against the rest of the dataset
About 337 days separate Kerman's last and first frost, putting it 2,700 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,223 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 93652: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kerman's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kerman can differ from the 93652 normal.