Eatonville, WA 98355 Frost Dates
98355, near Eatonville, WA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/22, about 267 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 134 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 Eatonville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Eatonville's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/22 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 134 frost-free days, Eatonville places 37,967 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 628 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98355: the frost range, on how to read the range around Eatonville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Eatonville can differ from the 98355 normal.