North Bend, WA 98045 Frost Dates
98045, near North Bend, WA: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for North Bend, not a forecast for this year.
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.
The actual range around North Bend's last frost
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
At roughly 193 frost-free days, North Bend places 19,798 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 366 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98045: the frost range, on how to read the range around North Bend's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in North Bend can differ from the 98045 normal.