Fresno, CA 93711 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Fresno, CA?
Around 01/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 139 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/14, about 337 frost-free days later.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Fresno, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 15 weeks of growing season left in Fresno before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Fresno's last frost
01/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fresno compares
At roughly 337 frost-free days, Fresno places 2,647 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,170 of 2,555.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Fresno's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Fresno can differ from the 93711 normal.