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Beaverton, OR 97006 Frost Dates

Beaverton, OR: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/11, roughly 167 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 303 days after the last spring frost.

Beaverton sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 14 weeks until Beaverton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Beaverton's last frost

02/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Beaverton against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 303 frost-free days, Beaverton places 3,770 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 17 of 463.

Learn more

Before leaning on 97006's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Beaverton can differ from the 97006 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Beaverton's frost date answer different questions.