Elk Grove, CA 95852 Frost Dates
95852, near Elk Grove, CA: the frost window
Around 02/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 158 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/02, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Elk Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elk Grove'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.
The actual range around Elk Grove's last frost
02/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elk Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 301 frost-free days, Elk Grove places 3,881 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,607 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95852: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elk Grove's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elk Grove can differ from the 95852 normal.