Placerville, CA 95684 Frost Dates
95684, near Placerville, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Placerville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Placerville'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 Placerville's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Placerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, Placerville places 20,736 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,308 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95684: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Placerville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Placerville's dates instead of trusting one.