South Lake Tahoe, CA 96157 Frost Dates
96157, near South Lake Tahoe, CA: the frost window
The NOAA station nearest to 96157 does not report a usable frost-date normal for either event, so no last-frost or first-frost figure is shown here. The USDA hardiness zone below is still real: Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum).
South Lake Tahoe against the rest of the dataset
About 63 days separate South Lake Tahoe's last and first frost, putting it 40,168 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,551 of 2,555.
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Two guides worth reading on 96157: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and South Lake Tahoe's frost date answer different questions, and local microclimates, on what one yard in South Lake Tahoe can differ from the 96157 normal.