Clovis, CA 93730 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Clovis, CA, ZIP 93730
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/09, roughly 193 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/01, about 262 frost-free days later.
Clovis sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Clovis has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Clovis's last frost
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Clovis compares
At roughly 262 frost-free days, Clovis places 6,178 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,024 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Clovis's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Clovis's dates instead of trusting one.