Fresno Facts

• Fresno County population is 917,515.
• The City of Fresno's population is 481,035.
• Fresno is the Spanish name for Ash Tree.
• Fresno is the #1 farm county in the nation.
• There are over 7,500 hotel/motel rooms in Fresno.
• The average daily commute in Fresno is 15 minutes.
• The raisin industry began in Fresno County when Frances Eisen accidentally let some of his grapes dry on the vine in 1875.
• Over 30 structures in Fresno County are on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Fresno's yearly average precipitation is 9.86 inches.
• Fresno County's 250 different crops produced by 7,500 farmers on 1.9 million irrigated acres are worth $3 billion a year.
• William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright lived in and wrote about Fresno.
• The average high temperature in winter is 54 degrees; in spring is 75 degrees; in summer is 98 degrees; and in fall is 80 degrees.
• There are about 375 churches in Fresno.

Source: Fresno City and County Conventions Visitors Bureau