Toledo, WA 98591 Frost Dates
98591, near Toledo, WA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Toledo in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Toledo'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.
The actual range around Toledo's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Toledo against the rest of the dataset
Toledo's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 19,037 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WA, it ranks 357 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98591: the frost range, on how to read the range around Toledo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Toledo can differ from the 98591 normal.