Lakeview, OR 97620 Frost Dates
97620, near Lakeview, OR: the frost window
Around 06/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 280 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/17, roughly 102 days after the last spring frost.
Lakeview sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Lakeview's growing season runs out in roughly 3 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lakeview's last frost
06/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lakeview against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 102 frost-free days, Lakeview places 39,656 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 409 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97620: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lakeview can differ from the 97620 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lakeview's frost date answer different questions.