FrostDateCheck

Reedsport, OR 97467 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Reedsport, OR?

Zone 9a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/24, about 249 frost-free days later.

Reedsport 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

About 13 weeks of growing season left in Reedsport before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Reedsport's last frost

03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Reedsport compares

At roughly 249 frost-free days, Reedsport places 7,627 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 75 of 463.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Reedsport's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Reedsport can differ from the 97467 normal.