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Woodland, CA 95627 Frost Dates

95627, near Woodland, CA: the frost window

Zone 9b

Around 02/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 163 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 301 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 Woodland, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Woodland'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

02/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Woodland against the rest of the dataset

About 301 days separate Woodland's last and first frost, putting it 3,898 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,621 of 2,555.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 95627: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodland can differ from the 95627 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Woodland's frost date answer different questions.