Dos Palos, CA 93665 Frost Dates
Dos Palos, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 01/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 151 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/10, roughly 322 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dos Palos 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
With roughly 15 weeks until Dos Palos's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 01/26 isn't a guarantee
01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dos Palos against the rest of the dataset
About 322 days separate Dos Palos's last and first frost, putting it 3,284 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,399 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 93665's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dos Palos's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dos Palos can differ from the 93665 normal.