Paradise, CA 95969 Frost Dates
95969, near Paradise, CA: the frost window
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 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 Paradise, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Paradise's growing season runs out in roughly 16 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
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 3,443 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,438 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95969: local microclimates, on what one yard in Paradise can differ from the 95969 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Paradise's frost date answer different questions.