Lincoln City, OR 97364 Frost Dates
Lincoln City, OR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
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 Lincoln City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Lincoln City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lincoln City's last frost
04/04 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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lincoln City against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate Lincoln City's last and first frost, putting it 11,000 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 148 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97364's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lincoln City can differ from the 97364 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Lincoln City's frost date answer different questions.