Wheatland, CA 95681 Frost Dates
95681, near Wheatland, CA: the frost window
Around 02/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 167 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 289 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wheatland 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
Wheatland's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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
02/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wheatland against the rest of the dataset
About 289 days separate Wheatland's last and first frost, putting it 4,553 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,715 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95681: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wheatland can differ from the 95681 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Wheatland's frost date answer different questions.