Huntington, OR 97905 Frost Dates
Huntington, OR: when does the frost end?
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 141 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Huntington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Huntington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Huntington's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Huntington against the rest of the dataset
About 141 days separate Huntington's last and first frost, putting it 36,971 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OR, it ranks 372 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97905's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Huntington can differ from the 97905 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Huntington's frost date answer different questions.