Fort Bragg, CA 95460 Frost Dates
95460, near Fort Bragg, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Bragg sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Fort Bragg'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.
The actual range around Fort Bragg's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Bragg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Fort Bragg places 5,378 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,866 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95460: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fort Bragg can differ from the 95460 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Fort Bragg's frost date answer different questions.