Port Angeles, WA 98362 Frost Dates
98362, near Port Angeles, WA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/12, roughly 196 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 252 days after the last spring frost.
Port Angeles 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
Port Angeles's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Port Angeles against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 252 frost-free days, Port Angeles places 7,207 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 76 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98362: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Port Angeles's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Port Angeles's dates instead of trusting one.