Bend, OR 97708 Frost Dates
Bend, OR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 06/06, about 282 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/20, roughly 105 days after the last spring frost.
Bend 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
With roughly 3 weeks until Bend's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bend's last frost
06/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/17 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.
Bend against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 105 frost-free days, Bend places 39,594 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 405 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97708's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bend can differ from the 97708 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bend's frost date answer different questions.