Ocean Shores, WA 98571 Frost Dates
Ocean Shores, WA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Ocean Shores, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Ocean Shores's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ocean Shores's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ocean Shores against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Ocean Shores's last and first frost, putting it 24,830 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WA, it ranks 438 of 700.
Learn more
Before leaning on 98571's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ocean Shores can differ from the 98571 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Ocean Shores's frost date answer different questions.