Hughson, CA 95319 Frost Dates
95319, near Hughson, CA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/31, roughly 156 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 312 days after the last spring frost.
Hughson 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
Hughson's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hughson against the rest of the dataset
About 312 days separate Hughson's last and first frost, putting it 3,501 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,458 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95319: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hughson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hughson can differ from the 95319 normal.