Crescent City, CA 95531 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Crescent City, CA, ZIP 95531
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/23, about 256 frost-free days later.
Crescent City 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Crescent City 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 Crescent City's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Crescent City compares
About 256 days separate Crescent City's last and first frost, putting it 6,810 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,065 of 2,555.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Crescent City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Crescent City's dates instead of trusting one.