Enetai, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Enetai, 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 Enetai lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Enetai — the short answer
Enetai, Washington: USDA zone 9a, about 285 days between hard freezes, across 670 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 15
- Kitsap County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- Kitsap County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~285
- Kitsap County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 670 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 Kitsap County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Enetai's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Enetai's 285-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Enetai
Each reading below is measured for Enetai itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsEnetai runs about 285 days between hard freezes (read from Kitsap County, the closest normal to Enetai) — 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
MeasuredEnetai sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Enetai is in
Enetai sits in the Puget Lowland — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Enetai's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kitsap County.
What Grows in Enetai
Every plant below cleared Enetai's own zone 9a and its 285-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Enetai?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — 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 Enetai
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Enetai. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KENNETH C ROHRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GAI'S NORTHWEST BAKERIES FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SHOP & GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ARNOLD L WAGNON/WAGNON'S TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PERRY AVE CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ILLAHEE STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- KITSAP COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 9Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- BREMERTON CITY OFUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- BREMERTON FIRE STATION THREEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- USN TRANSIENT FAMILY ACCOMMODATION EAST PARKSuperfund · 0.9 mi
- NORTH PERRY AVE WATER DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- DELPHINUS ENGINEERING INCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Enetai'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 Enetai.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Enetai
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Enetai
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Enetai, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Enetai — Superfund (18 sites) and PFAS (10 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Enetai
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 Enetai average
Your land is one point inside Enetai
Everything above resolves to Enetai as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 670 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Kitsap 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 Enetai Average
Enetai Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Enetai
- ●One soil character for all of Enetai
- ●Frost dates read at Enetai's scale: Feb 15 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Enetai's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Enetai
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Enetai, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Enetai averages can't show:
We read public map data around Enetai — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Enetai average
How we know this about Enetai
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 Kitsap 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 Enetai
When does frost risk typically end in Enetai?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Enetai typically lands around Feb 15, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Enetai?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Enetai typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 285 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Enetai?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Enetai sees about 285 frost-free days — roughly Feb 15 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 8 to Nov 13, about 250 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Enetai?
The federal record around Enetai runs heavier than most — 806 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (376), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Enetai?
From about Oct 28 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Enetai's scale — its 9a band and its 285-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Enetai'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 Enetai’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Enetai's own scale — the 670 acres it covers and 806 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Enetai's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 806 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Enetai, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Enetai's boundary and the 670 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~285-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Enetai's own centroid, the Puget LowlandUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Enetai has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Kitsap County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Enetai's 670 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kitsap County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kitsap 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 Kitsap County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Enetai's 670 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Enetai you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 670 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Enetai-wide figureread your own land →