Gervais, OR 97026 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Gervais, OR, ZIP 97026
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 242 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Gervais, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Gervais 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 Gervais compares
At roughly 242 frost-free days, Gervais places 8,369 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 115 of 463.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Gervais can differ from the 97026 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Gervais's frost date answer different questions.