Entiat, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Entiat, 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 Entiat lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Entiat — the short answer
Entiat, Washington: USDA zone 7a, about 245 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~245
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Entiat's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Entiat's 245-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Entiat
Each reading below is measured for Entiat itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEntiat runs about 245 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredEntiat 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 Entiat is in
Entiat sits in the Columbia Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Entiat's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Chelan County is mostly North Cascades. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Entiat
Every plant below cleared Entiat's own zone 7a and its 245-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Entiat?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Entiat
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Entiat. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ENTIAT CENTRAL OFFICE 4190-B01Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ENTIAT CITY HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- US CASTINGS LLC ENTIATUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CHEVRON CHARLES D FOLLIS ENTIATUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- US CASTINGS LLCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- ENTIAT SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- BJ'S ENTIATUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- AUVIL FRUIT CO INC RANCH 1Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- ORONDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- ENTIAT MAIN FIRE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- ORONDO MARKET PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- OrondoMining · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Entiat'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 Entiat.
Total Sites
36
within ~10 miles of Entiat
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Entiat
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Entiat
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Entiat, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Entiat — Mining (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (23 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Entiat
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Entiat
Everything above resolves to Entiat as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 city 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 Entiat Average
Entiat Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Entiat
- ●One soil character for all of Entiat
- ●Frost dates read at Entiat's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Entiat's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Entiat
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Entiat, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Entiat averages can't show:
We read public map data around Entiat — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Entiat average
How we know this about Entiat
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Entiat’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Entiat
When does frost risk typically end in Entiat?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Entiat typically lands around Mar 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Entiat?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Entiat typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 245 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Entiat?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Entiat sees about 245 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Oct 28, about 210 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Entiat?
The federal record around Entiat is a meaningful one — 36 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (23), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Entiat?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Entiat's scale — its 7a band and its 245-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Entiat'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 Entiat’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Entiat's own scale — its own ~245-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,395 acres it covers and 36 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Entiat's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Entiat's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 11 and the ~245-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 36 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Entiat, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Entiat's boundary and the 1,395 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~245-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Entiat sits in the Columbia Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Entiat's 1,395 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chelan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chelan 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 Chelan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Entiat's 1,395 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Entiat you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,395 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 Entiat-wide figureread your own land →