Lakeport, CA 95464 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lakeport, CA, ZIP 95464
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/21, about 259 frost-free days later.
Lakeport sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Lakeport has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lakeport's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lakeport compares
At roughly 259 frost-free days, Lakeport places 6,582 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,052 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Lakeport's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lakeport's dates instead of trusting one.