Elgin, OR 97827 Frost Dates
97827, near Elgin, OR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/07, roughly 283 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/09, roughly 91 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Elgin in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Elgin's growing season runs out in roughly 2 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 Elgin's last frost
06/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 07/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elgin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 91 frost-free days, Elgin places 39,904 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 432 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97827: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Elgin's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Elgin's dates instead of trusting one.