East Wenatchee, WA 98802 Frost Dates
98802, near East Wenatchee, WA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
East Wenatchee sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
East Wenatchee'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Wenatchee against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, East Wenatchee places 15,544 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 278 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 98802: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and East Wenatchee's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around East Wenatchee's dates instead of trusting one.