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Waldport, OR 97394 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Waldport, OR, ZIP 97394

Zone 9a

Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 202 frost-free days later.

Waldport 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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 9a around Waldport 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 Waldport's last frost

04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Waldport compares

At roughly 202 frost-free days, Waldport places 17,254 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 224 of 463.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Waldport's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Waldport can differ from the 97394 normal.