Wheatland, CA 95977 Frost Dates
95977, near Wheatland, CA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 215 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 Wheatland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wheatland'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.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wheatland against the rest of the dataset
Wheatland's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,085 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CA, it ranks 2,190 of 2,555.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 95977: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wheatland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wheatland can differ from the 95977 normal.