Blue Lake, CA 96046 Frost Dates
Blue Lake, CA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Blue Lake in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Blue Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Blue Lake's last frost
04/16 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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blue Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Blue Lake's last and first frost, putting it 18,730 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,299 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 96046's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Blue Lake can differ from the 96046 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Blue Lake's frost date answer different questions.