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Elmer City, WA 99124 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Elmer City, WA, ZIP 99124

Zone 7b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 180 frost-free days later.

Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Elmer City, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7b around Elmer City has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Elmer City's last frost

04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Elmer City compares

At roughly 180 frost-free days, Elmer City places 25,051 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 443 of 700.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Elmer City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Elmer City can differ from the 99124 normal.