Fort Bragg, CA 95488 Frost Dates
Fort Bragg, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Bragg 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
With roughly 14 weeks until Fort Bragg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
Fort Bragg's growing season runs about 272 days, ranking 5,379 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,867 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95488's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Fort Bragg's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Bragg's dates instead of trusting one.