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Lincoln City, OR 97122 Frost Dates

Lincoln City, OR: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/17, about 201 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.

Lincoln City 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 12 weeks until Lincoln City'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

03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Lincoln City against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 251 frost-free days, Lincoln City places 7,306 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 54 of 463.

Learn more

Before leaning on 97122's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Lincoln City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lincoln City's dates instead of trusting one.