Paradise, CA 95916 Frost Dates
Paradise, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 163 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/18, roughly 313 days after the last spring frost.
Paradise 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
With roughly 16 weeks until Paradise's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Paradise's last frost
02/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paradise against the rest of the dataset
About 313 days separate Paradise's last and first frost, putting it 3,440 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,435 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95916's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Paradise can differ from the 95916 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Paradise's frost date answer different questions.