Brogan, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Brogan, 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 Brogan lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Brogan — the short answer
Brogan, Oregon: USDA zone 6b, about 186 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~186
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6b is Brogan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Brogan's 186-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Brogan
Each reading below is measured for Brogan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBrogan runs about 186 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBrogan sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Brogan is in
Brogan sits in the Snake River Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Brogan's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Malheur County is mostly Northern Basin and Range. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Brogan
Every plant below cleared Brogan's own zone 6b and its 186-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Brogan?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Brogan
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Brogan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AT&T - BROGANUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- FRONTIER MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- VILSMEYER GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- MCGOURTY FARMS - PAT MCGOURTY FEEDLOTCAFO · 2600 ft
- Purple RidgeMining · 5.4 mi
- Purple Ridge ProspectMining · 5.4 mi
- Y-1 FARMSCAFO · 6.8 mi
- Y1 FARMS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- Greenhorn ChromeMining · 7.7 mi
Measured from Brogan'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 Brogan.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Brogan
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Brogan
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
Check your specific parcel in Brogan
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Brogan
Everything above resolves to Brogan as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K acres. 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 Brogan Average
Brogan Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Brogan
- ●One soil character for all of Brogan
- ●Frost dates read at Brogan's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Brogan's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Brogan
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Brogan, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Brogan averages can't show:
We read public map data around Brogan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Brogan average
How we know this about Brogan
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 Brogan’s own record; 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 Brogan
When does frost risk typically end in Brogan?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Brogan typically lands around Apr 17, 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 May 8.
When is the first frost in Brogan?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Brogan typically arrives around Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 6, so the watching starts about Sep 20 — about 186 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Brogan?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Brogan sees about 186 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 6, about 151 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Brogan?
The federal record around Brogan is light — 10 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Mining entries (4), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Brogan?
From about Sep 20 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 Oct 20 (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 Oct 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Brogan's scale — its 6b band and its 186-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Brogan'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 Brogan’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Brogan's own scale — its own ~186-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,830 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Brogan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Brogan's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 20 and the ~186-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Brogan, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Brogan's boundary and the 1,830 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~186-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Brogan sits in the Snake River Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Brogan's 1,830 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Malheur County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Malheur 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 Malheur County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Brogan's 1,830 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Brogan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,830 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Brogan-wide figureread your own land →
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