Eatonville, WA 98304 Frost Dates
Eatonville, WA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 267 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 134 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Eatonville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Eatonville'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
05/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eatonville against the rest of the dataset
Eatonville's growing season runs about 134 days, ranking 37,965 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WA, it ranks 626 of 700.
Learn more
Before leaning on 98304's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Eatonville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Eatonville can differ from the 98304 normal.