Eatonville, WA 98328 Frost Dates
98328, near Eatonville, WA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Eatonville sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Eatonville'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 Eatonville's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eatonville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Eatonville places 17,242 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 297 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98328: local microclimates, on what one yard in Eatonville can differ from the 98328 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Eatonville's frost date answer different questions.