Dos Palos, CA 95317 Frost Dates
Dos Palos, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/26, about 182 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 273 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Dos Palos, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 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 02/26 isn't a guarantee
02/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dos Palos against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 273 frost-free days, Dos Palos places 5,207 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,836 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95317'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 95317 normal.