Kent, WA 98032 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Kent, WA, ZIP 98032
Around 03/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 204 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 233 frost-free days later.
Kent sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Kent has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Kent's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Kent compares
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Kent places 9,842 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 173 of 700.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Kent can differ from the 98032 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Kent's frost date answer different questions.