Rockaway Beach, OR 97136 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Rockaway Beach, OR, ZIP 97136
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 223 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Rockaway Beach, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Rockaway Beach 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.
The actual range around Rockaway Beach's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Rockaway Beach compares
Rockaway Beach's growing season runs about 223 days, ranking 12,086 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OR, it ranks 166 of 463.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Rockaway Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Rockaway Beach can differ from the 97136 normal.