Toledo, WA 98649 Frost Dates
98649, near Toledo, WA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Toledo, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Toledo's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Toledo against the rest of the dataset
Toledo's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,154 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WA, it ranks 261 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98649: 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 98649 normal.