Ferndale, CA 95536 Frost Dates
95536, near Ferndale, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/22, about 178 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 293 days after the last spring frost.
Ferndale 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
Ferndale's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ferndale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 293 frost-free days, Ferndale places 4,297 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,671 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95536: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ferndale's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ferndale can differ from the 95536 normal.