Medford, OR 97504 Frost Dates
Medford, OR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Medford 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 9 weeks until Medford'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
04/08 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 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Medford against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Medford's last and first frost, putting it 16,466 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 212 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97504's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Medford's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Medford's dates instead of trusting one.