Yuba City, CA 95982 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Yuba City, CA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/15, roughly 140 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/12, about 333 frost-free days later.
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 Yuba City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 15 weeks of growing season left in Yuba City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Yuba City's last frost
01/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Yuba City compares
At roughly 333 frost-free days, Yuba City places 2,818 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 1,283 of 2,555.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Yuba City's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Yuba City can differ from the 95982 normal.