Rockford, WA 99023 Frost Dates
Rockford, WA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Rockford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Rockford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rockford against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Rockford's last and first frost, putting it 29,169 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WA, it ranks 504 of 700.
Learn more
Before leaning on 99023's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Rockford's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Rockford can differ from the 99023 normal.