Estacada, OR 97268 Frost Dates
Estacada, OR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Estacada 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 Estacada'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
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Estacada against the rest of the dataset
Estacada's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,386 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OR, it ranks 145 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97268's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Estacada's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Estacada can differ from the 97268 normal.