Hood River, OR 97041 Frost Dates
Hood River, OR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
Hood River sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 7 weeks until Hood River's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hood River's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hood River against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Hood River places 26,089 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 303 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97041's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hood River's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hood River can differ from the 97041 normal.