Paradise, CA 95978 Frost Dates
Paradise, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 11 weeks until Paradise's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Paradise's last frost
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
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Paradise places 15,984 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,236 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95978's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Paradise's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Paradise can differ from the 95978 normal.