Crescent City, CA 95532 Frost Dates
95532, near Crescent City, CA: the frost window
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Crescent City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Crescent City's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Crescent City's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crescent City against the rest of the dataset
Crescent City's growing season runs about 256 days, ranking 6,811 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,066 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95532: local microclimates, on what one yard in Crescent City can differ from the 95532 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Crescent City's frost date answer different questions.