Scotts Valley, CA 95067 Frost Dates
95067, near Scotts Valley, CA: the frost window
Around 01/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 154 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/13, roughly 323 days after the last spring frost.
Scotts Valley 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Scotts Valley'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
01/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scotts Valley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 323 frost-free days, Scotts Valley places 3,260 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,389 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95067: the frost range, on how to read the range around Scotts Valley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Scotts Valley can differ from the 95067 normal.