North Bend, WA 98041 Frost Dates
98041, near North Bend, WA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Bend in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Bend's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Bend against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate North Bend's last and first frost, putting it 19,797 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WA, it ranks 365 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98041: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and North Bend's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North Bend's dates instead of trusting one.