Eagle Point, OR 97524 Frost Dates
97524, near Eagle Point, OR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Eagle Point sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Eagle Point's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
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.
Eagle Point against the rest of the dataset
Eagle Point's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,544 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OR, it ranks 215 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97524: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Eagle Point's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Eagle Point's dates instead of trusting one.