Live Oak, CA 95953 Frost Dates
95953, near Live Oak, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/15, about 140 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/12, roughly 333 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 Live Oak, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Live Oak's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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 Live Oak's last frost
01/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Live Oak against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 333 frost-free days, Live Oak places 2,842 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,291 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95953: local microclimates, on what one yard in Live Oak can differ from the 95953 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Live Oak's frost date answer different questions.