Veneta, OR 97412 Frost Dates
97412, near Veneta, OR: the frost window
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Veneta sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Veneta's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Veneta's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Veneta against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Veneta's last and first frost, putting it 21,537 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 285 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97412: the frost range, on how to read the range around Veneta's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Veneta can differ from the 97412 normal.