Gold Beach, OR 97444 Frost Dates
Gold Beach, OR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/16, about 172 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/16, roughly 314 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Gold Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 16 weeks until Gold Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/16 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 12/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gold Beach against the rest of the dataset
Gold Beach's growing season runs about 314 days, ranking 3,433 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OR, it ranks 4 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97444's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Gold Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Gold Beach's dates instead of trusting one.