Condon, OR 97861 Frost Dates
97861, near Condon, OR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Condon sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Condon's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Condon's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Condon against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Condon's last and first frost, putting it 19,048 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 252 of 463.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 97861: local microclimates, on what one yard in Condon can differ from the 97861 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Condon's frost date answer different questions.