Sutter Creek, CA 95654 Frost Dates
95654, near Sutter Creek, CA: the frost window
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sutter Creek 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
Sutter Creek's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Sutter Creek's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sutter Creek against the rest of the dataset
Sutter Creek's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,453 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,401 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95654: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sutter Creek's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sutter Creek can differ from the 95654 normal.