Woodland, CA 95645 Frost Dates
95645, near Woodland, CA: the frost window
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.