Fort Jones, CA 96050 Frost Dates
Fort Jones, CA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Jones sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Fort Jones's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fort Jones's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Jones against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Fort Jones places 29,544 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CA, it ranks 2,404 of 2,555.
Learn more
Before leaning on 96050's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Jones's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Jones can differ from the 96050 normal.