Barview, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect kale, douglas fir, garlic, and hazelnut to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Barview, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Barview lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Barview — the short answer
Barview, Oregon: USDA zone 9b, about 292 days between hard freezes, across 884 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 8
- Coos County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- Coos County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~292
- Coos County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 884 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Coos County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Barview's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Barview's 292-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Barview
Each reading below is measured for Barview itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBarview runs about 292 days between hard freezes (read from Coos County, the closest normal to Barview) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBarview sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Barview is in
Barview sits in the Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Barview's own centroid rather than borrowed from Coos County.
What Grows in Barview
Plants matched to Barview's USDA zones 9b, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Barview?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Barview
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Barview. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- USDOT USCG ANT COOS BAYBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- USDOT USCG ANT COOS BAYSuperfund · 0.9 mi
- USDOT COAST GUARD STATION COOS BAYBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- HANSON, EMERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- USCG STATION COOS BAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- PORT OF COOS BAY - CHARLESTON BOAT YARDSuperfund · 1.0 mi
- BURNS DAVEY JONES LOCKERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- OREGON INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGYBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- OREGON INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- RUSSELL'S MARINE FUEL & SUPPLY, LLC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- USAF COOS HEAD AIR NATIONAL GUARD STATIONBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- SHIRTCLIFFS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Barview's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Barview.
Total Sites
302
within ~10 miles of Barview
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Barview
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Barview
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Barview, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Barview — Mining (50 sites) and Superfund (4 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Barview
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Barview average
Your land is one point inside Barview
Everything above resolves to Barview as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 884 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Coos County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Barview Average
Barview Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Barview
- ●One soil character for all of Barview
- ●Frost dates read at Barview's scale: Feb 8 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Barview's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Barview
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Barview, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Barview averages can't show:
We read public map data around Barview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Barview average
How we know this about Barview
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Coos County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Barview
When does frost risk typically end in Barview?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Barview typically lands around Feb 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Mar 1.
When is the first frost in Barview?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Barview typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 292 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Barview?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Barview sees about 292 frost-free days — roughly Feb 8 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 1 to Nov 13, about 257 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Barview?
The federal record around Barview is a meaningful one — 302 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (168), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.9 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Barview?
From about Oct 28 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Barview's scale — its 9b band and its 292-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Barview's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Barview’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Barview's own scale — the 884 acres it covers and 302 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Barview's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 302 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Barview, the closest Brownfields record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Barview's boundary and the 884 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- The ecoregion at Barview's own centroid, the Coast RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Barview has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Coos County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Barview's 884 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coos County
- The candidate plant list — Oregon's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Oregon
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coos County
- The growing challenges every Oregon grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Oregon
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Coos County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Barview's 884 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Barview you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 884 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.9 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Barview-wide figureread your own land →