Oakesdale, WA 99176 Frost Dates
99176, near Oakesdale, WA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/30, roughly 275 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/04, roughly 94 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 Oakesdale, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Oakesdale's growing season runs out in roughly 1 week — 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
05/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 07/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oakesdale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 94 frost-free days, Oakesdale places 39,848 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WA, it ranks 691 of 700.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 99176: local microclimates, on what one yard in Oakesdale can differ from the 99176 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Oakesdale's frost date answer different questions.