Orting, WA 98360 Frost Dates
98360, near Orting, WA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Orting, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Orting'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Orting against the rest of the dataset
About 202 days separate Orting's last and first frost, putting it 17,200 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WA, it ranks 296 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98360: the frost range, on how to read the range around Orting's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Orting can differ from the 98360 normal.