Anatone, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, pawpaw, 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 Anatone, 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 Anatone lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Anatone — the short answer
Anatone, Washington: USDA zone 7a, about 179 days between hard freezes, across 77 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~179
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 77 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 7a is Anatone's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Anatone's 179-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Anatone
Each reading below is measured for Anatone itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAnatone runs about 179 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAnatone sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Anatone is in
Anatone sits in the Columbia Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Anatone's own centroid rather than borrowed from Asotin County.
What Grows in Anatone
Every plant below cleared Anatone's own zone 7a and its 179-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Anatone?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Anatone
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Anatone. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WA DOT ANATONE MAINTENANCE SITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- 08N/45E-26K01Nitrate · 1200 ft
- ASOTIN COUNTY SHOP ANATONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WESTERN FARM SERVICE INC ANATONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GERALD HOTZMILLERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- FIELDS SPRING STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- CROP PRODUCTION SERVICES INC ANATONEBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- BEAMERS HELLER BARUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- DEAN E REEVESUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- WILMA PORT OFUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.6 mi
- Prospects No.15Mining · 9.9 mi
- Golden Crown GroupMining · 9.9 mi
Measured from Anatone'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 Anatone.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Anatone
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Anatone
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Anatone
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 Anatone average
Your land is one point inside Anatone
Everything above resolves to Anatone as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 77 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 Anatone Average
Anatone Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Anatone
- ●One soil character for all of Anatone
- ●Frost dates read at Anatone's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Anatone's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Anatone
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Anatone, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Anatone averages can't show:
We read public map data around Anatone — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Anatone average
How we know this about Anatone
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 Anatone’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 Anatone
When does frost risk typically end in Anatone?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Anatone typically lands around Apr 24, 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 May 15.
When is the first frost in Anatone?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Anatone typically arrives around Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 6, so the watching starts about Sep 20 — about 179 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Anatone?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Anatone sees about 179 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 6, about 144 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Anatone?
The federal record around Anatone is light — 13 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (8), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Anatone?
From about Sep 20 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 Oct 20 (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 Oct 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Anatone's scale — its 7a band and its 179-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Anatone'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 Anatone’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Anatone's own scale — its own ~179-day season between 28°F freezes, the 77 acres it covers and 13 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Anatone's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Anatone's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 20 and the ~179-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 13 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Anatone, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Anatone's boundary and the 77 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~179-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Anatone's own centroid, the Columbia PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Anatone's 77 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Asotin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Asotin 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 Asotin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Anatone's 77 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Anatone you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 77 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Anatone-wide figureread your own land →