Pick 559 if the number should read as Fresno.
The California Public Utilities Commission names Clovis, Madera, Reedley, Selma and Visalia as well as Fresno among the places it serves.
The area codes for Fresno are 559 and 357.
Area codes in Fresno
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Fresno is covered by 559, split from 209 in 1998, and by 357, laid over it in 2025. Both codes serve Fresno, Clovis and the San Joaquin Valley around them.
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Fresno has two area codes.
- 559Since 1998Fresno and the San Joaquin ValleyVisaliaClovisMadera
100 FCC complaints
Get a 559 number - 357Since 2025Overlay code
1 FCC complaint
Pick 559 for Fresno, the code that has served the city since 1998.
Pick 661 if the number is for Bakersfield and the south of the valley.
661 was split from 805 in 1999. Bakersfield, Delano and Taft are among its cities.
Pick 916 if the number is for Sacramento, to the north.
916 is one of the three original California codes, from 1947.
People filed 101 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Fresno area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 101 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 559 and 357. 559 was named most, on 100 of them (99%).
- 101unwanted-call complaints named a Fresno code
- 559was named on the most of them, 100
- 99%of the Fresno complaints named 559
Fresno codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Fresno code.
- 1559Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley100
- 2357Overlay code1
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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It was 209. The commission approved the split in 1997, and the southern part of the old 209 area took 559 on November 14, 1998.
A second code, 357, was laid over 559, and since February 26, 2025 every local call has been dialed as 1 plus all ten digits.
A local call in Fresno is dialed with 1 plus ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 101 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Fresno code: 559 (100) and 357 (1). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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