Bucoda, WA 98530 Frost Dates
98530, near Bucoda, WA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 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 Bucoda, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bucoda'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.
Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bucoda against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Bucoda's last and first frost, putting it 22,147 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WA, it ranks 417 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98530: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Bucoda's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bucoda's dates instead of trusting one.