Truckee, CA 96160 Frost Dates
96160, near Truckee, CA: the frost window
The NOAA station nearest to 96160 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 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum).
Truckee against the rest of the dataset
About 59 days separate Truckee's last and first frost, putting it 40,188 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CA, it ranks 2,553 of 2,555.
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Two guides worth reading on 96160: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Truckee's frost date answer different questions, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Truckee can differ from the 96160 normal.