Paradise, CA 95976 Frost Dates
95976, 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 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
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
Paradise's growing season runs about 313 days, ranking 3,444 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 1,439 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95976: the frost range, on how to read the range around Paradise's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Paradise can differ from the 95976 normal.