Lafayette, OR 97127 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lafayette, OR, ZIP 97127
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 216 frost-free days later.
Lafayette 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Lafayette has about 10 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.
The actual range around Lafayette's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lafayette compares
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Lafayette places 13,778 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 183 of 463.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Lafayette's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Lafayette can differ from the 97127 normal.