Albany, OR 97322 Frost Dates
97322, near Albany, OR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Albany in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Albany's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Albany's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albany against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Albany places 19,417 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 258 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97322: local microclimates, on what one yard in Albany can differ from the 97322 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Albany's frost date answer different questions.