Citrus Heights, CA 95660 Frost Dates
95660, near Citrus Heights, CA: the frost window
Around 01/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 137 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/16, roughly 341 days after the last spring frost.
Citrus Heights 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
Citrus Heights's growing season runs out in roughly 16 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 Citrus Heights's last frost
01/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Citrus Heights against the rest of the dataset
Citrus Heights's growing season runs about 341 days, ranking 2,591 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,148 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95660: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Citrus Heights's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Citrus Heights's dates instead of trusting one.