Cannon Beach, OR 97102 Frost Dates
Cannon Beach, OR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Cannon Beach sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Cannon Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cannon Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 223 days separate Cannon Beach's last and first frost, putting it 12,076 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 163 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97102's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Cannon Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cannon Beach's dates instead of trusting one.