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Canby, OR 97013 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Canby, OR, ZIP 97013

Zone 8b

Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 242 frost-free days later.

Canby 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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 8b around Canby has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

Why 03/16 isn't a guarantee

03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Canby compares

At roughly 242 frost-free days, Canby places 8,352 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 111 of 463.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Canby's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Canby's dates instead of trusting one.