Paradise, CA 95954 Frost Dates
95954, near Paradise, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Paradise sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Paradise's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paradise against the rest of the dataset
Paradise's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 15,983 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,235 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95954: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Paradise's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Paradise's dates instead of trusting one.