Gold Bar, WA 98259 Frost Dates
Gold Bar, WA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 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 Gold Bar, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Gold Bar's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gold Bar against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Gold Bar places 20,372 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 396 of 700.
Learn more
Before leaning on 98259's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gold Bar's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gold Bar can differ from the 98259 normal.