Veneta, OR 97430 Frost Dates
97430, near Veneta, OR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/15, roughly 171 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 306 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Veneta in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Veneta's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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
02/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Veneta against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 306 frost-free days, Veneta places 3,693 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 9 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97430: local microclimates, on what one yard in Veneta can differ from the 97430 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Veneta's frost date answer different questions.