Moxee, WA 98936 Frost Dates
Moxee, WA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Moxee in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Moxee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Moxee's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moxee against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 155 frost-free days, Moxee places 33,961 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 583 of 700.
Learn more
Before leaning on 98936's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Moxee can differ from the 98936 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Moxee's frost date answer different questions.