Cloverdale, CA 95480 Frost Dates
Cloverdale, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 181 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 279 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Cloverdale, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 14 weeks until Cloverdale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cloverdale against the rest of the dataset
Cloverdale's growing season runs about 279 days, ranking 4,885 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,794 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95480's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cloverdale can differ from the 95480 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Cloverdale's frost date answer different questions.