Allyn, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Allyn, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Allyn lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Allyn — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Allyn — the short answer
Allyn, Washington: USDA zone 8b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- Mason County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- Mason County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- Mason County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Mason County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Allyn's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Allyn's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Allyn
Each reading below is measured for Allyn itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsAllyn runs about 243 days between hard freezes (read from Mason County, the closest normal to Allyn) — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAllyn sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Allyn is in
Allyn sits in the Puget Lowland — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Allyn's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mason County.
What Grows in Allyn
Every plant below cleared Allyn's own zone 8b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Allyn?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Allyn
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Allyn. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BEN'S DELI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 5 MASON COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- STAN'S AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE/ALLYN AUTO SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- APARTMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- RONALD A GRIFFEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- COULTER CREEK HATCHERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- NORTH MASON SCHOOL DISTRICT 403Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- MASON CO PUD 3Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- 22N/02W-12N02Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- M C GWIMONTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- HAPPY HOLLOW GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- FAIR HARBOR MARINE AND RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Allyn's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Allyn.
Total Sites
156
within ~10 miles of Allyn
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Allyn
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Allyn
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Allyn, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Allyn — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (50 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Allyn
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Allyn average
Your land is one point inside Allyn
Everything above resolves to Allyn as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Mason County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Allyn Average
Allyn Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Allyn
- ●One soil character for all of Allyn
- ●Frost dates read at Allyn's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Allyn's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Allyn
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Allyn, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Allyn averages can't show:
We read public map data around Allyn — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Allyn average
How we know this about Allyn
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Mason County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Allyn
When does frost risk typically end in Allyn?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Allyn typically lands around Mar 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 7.
When is the first frost in Allyn?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Allyn typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Allyn?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Allyn sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 1, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Allyn?
The federal record around Allyn is a meaningful one — 156 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (90), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Allyn?
From about Oct 16 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Allyn's scale — its 8b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Allyn's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Allyn’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Allyn's own scale — the 1,022 acres it covers and 156 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Allyn's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 156 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Allyn, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Allyn's boundary and the 1,022 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Allyn's own centroid, the Puget LowlandUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Allyn has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Mason County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Allyn's 1,022 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mason County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mason County
- The growing challenges every Washington grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Washington
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Mason County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Allyn's 1,022 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Allyn you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,022 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Allyn-wide figureread your own land →