Veneta, OR 97490 Frost Dates
Veneta, OR: when does the frost end?
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.
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
With roughly 15 weeks until Veneta'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
02/15 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
About 306 days separate Veneta's last and first frost, putting it 3,694 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 10 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97490's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Veneta's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Veneta can differ from the 97490 normal.