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Woodland, CA 95645 Frost Dates

95645, near Woodland, CA: the frost window

Zone 9b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/07, roughly 163 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodland in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

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

At roughly 301 frost-free days, Woodland places 3,899 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,622 of 2,555.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 95645: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodland can differ from the 95645 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Woodland's frost date answer different questions.