Amanda Park, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Amanda Park, 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 Amanda Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Amanda Park — the short answer
Amanda Park, Washington: USDA zone 8b, about 261 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~261
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Amanda Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Amanda Park's 261-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Amanda Park
Each reading below is measured for Amanda Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAmanda Park runs about 261 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAmanda Park 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 Amanda Park is in
Amanda Park sits in the Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Amanda Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Grays Harbor County.
What Grows in Amanda Park
Every plant below cleared Amanda Park's own zone 8b and its 261-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Amanda Park?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Amanda Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Amanda Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AMANDA PARK CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- 23N/09W-19N01Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- NEILTON SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- JON J MCDONALDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- QUINAULT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- USDA FS OLYMPIC NF: QUINAULT OFFICE PACIFIC RANGER DISTR-SOUTHSuperfund · 3.8 mi
- PETERSON SHAKE CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- QUINAULT RANGER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
- LAKE QUINAULT LODGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
Measured from Amanda Park'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 Amanda Park.
Total Sites
10
within ~10 miles of Amanda Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Amanda Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Amanda Park
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •A Superfund listing means federally documented contamination. Test soil and water before planting edibles nearby.
Check your specific parcel in Amanda Park
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 Amanda Park average
Your land is one point inside Amanda Park
Everything above resolves to Amanda Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K acres. 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 Amanda Park Average
Amanda Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Amanda Park
- ●One soil character for all of Amanda Park
- ●Frost dates read at Amanda Park's scale: Mar 7 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Amanda Park's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Amanda Park
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We read public map data around Amanda Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Amanda Park average
How we know this about Amanda Park
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 Amanda Park’s own record; 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 Amanda Park
When does frost risk typically end in Amanda Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Amanda Park typically lands around Mar 7, 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 Mar 28.
When is the first frost in Amanda Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Amanda Park typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 261 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Amanda Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Amanda Park sees about 261 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 9, about 226 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Amanda Park?
The federal record around Amanda Park is a meaningful one — 10 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 Amanda Park?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Amanda Park's scale — its 8b band and its 261-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Amanda Park'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 Amanda Park’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Amanda Park's own scale — its own ~261-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,262 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Amanda Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Amanda Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 7 and Nov 23 and the ~261-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Amanda Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Amanda Park's boundary and the 5,262 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~261-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Amanda Park's own centroid, the Coast RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Amanda Park's 5,262 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grays Harbor County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grays Harbor 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 Grays Harbor County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Amanda Park's 5,262 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Amanda Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,262 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 Amanda Park-wide figureread your own land →