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Paradise, CA 95927 Frost Dates

Paradise, CA: when does the frost end?

Zone 9a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/07, about 163 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/18, roughly 313 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 Paradise, not a forecast for this year.

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

At roughly 313 frost-free days, Paradise places 3,441 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,436 of 2,555.

Learn more

Before leaning on 95927's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Paradise can differ from the 95927 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Paradise's frost date answer different questions.