Elmer City, WA 99116 Frost Dates
Elmer City, WA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Elmer City 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 8 weeks until Elmer City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Elmer City's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elmer City against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Elmer City's last and first frost, putting it 25,050 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WA, it ranks 442 of 700.
Learn more
Before leaning on 99116's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Elmer City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Elmer City can differ from the 99116 normal.