Estacada, OR 97022 Frost Dates
Estacada, OR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Estacada 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 11 weeks until Estacada's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Estacada's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Estacada against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Estacada places 10,383 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 142 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97022's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Estacada can differ from the 97022 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Estacada's frost date answer different questions.