Yachats, OR 97498 Frost Dates
Yachats, OR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Yachats 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Yachats'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
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yachats against the rest of the dataset
About 202 days separate Yachats's last and first frost, putting it 17,288 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 227 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97498's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Yachats can differ from the 97498 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Yachats's frost date answer different questions.