Pe Ell, WA 98522 Frost Dates
98522, near Pe Ell, WA: the frost window
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Pe Ell 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
Pe Ell's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pe Ell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Pe Ell places 25,851 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 449 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98522: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pe Ell's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pe Ell's dates instead of trusting one.