Yuba City, CA 95992 Frost Dates
Yuba City, CA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/11, about 167 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 289 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 Yuba City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Yuba City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Yuba City's last frost
02/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yuba City against the rest of the dataset
About 289 days separate Yuba City's last and first frost, putting it 4,536 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 1,708 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 95992's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Yuba City can differ from the 95992 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Yuba City's frost date answer different questions.