Elk Grove, CA 94282 Frost Dates
Elk Grove, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/02, about 158 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/02, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
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 Elk Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 14 weeks until Elk Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Elk Grove's last frost
02/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elk Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 301 frost-free days, Elk Grove places 3,849 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,575 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 94282's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Elk Grove's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Elk Grove can differ from the 94282 normal.