Eagle Point, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Eagle Point, 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 Eagle Point lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eagle Point — the short answer
Eagle Point, Oregon: USDA zone 8b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 8b is Eagle Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eagle Point's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eagle Point
Each reading below is measured for Eagle Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEagle Point runs about 235 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEagle Point sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Eagle Point is in
Eagle Point sits in the Klamath Mountains/California High North Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Eagle Point's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jackson County.
What Grows in Eagle Point
Every plant below cleared Eagle Point's own zone 8b and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eagle Point?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Eagle Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eagle Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BUS SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- EAGLE POINT CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- EAGLE POINT, CITY OFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- JOHNATHAN CARRUTHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- EAGLE POINT IRRIGATION DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- EAGLE POINT ARCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- EAGLE POINT NATIONAL CEMETERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- George A. Mclean PropertyMining · 0.8 mi
- George A McleanMining · 0.8 mi
- WAL-MART STORES, INC #5424Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- 35S/01W-34CDB1Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 36S/01W-10BCB1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eagle Point'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 Eagle Point.
Total Sites
507
within ~10 miles of Eagle Point
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eagle Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eagle Point
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eagle Point, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 34 sites within ~10 miles of Eagle Point. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Eagle Point
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 Eagle Point
Everything above resolves to Eagle Point 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 city 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 Eagle Point Average
Eagle Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Eagle Point
- ●One soil character for all of Eagle Point
- ●Frost dates read at Eagle Point's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eagle Point's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eagle Point
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eagle Point, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eagle Point averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eagle Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Eagle Point
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Eagle Point’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Eagle Point
When does frost risk typically end in Eagle Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eagle Point typically lands around Mar 19, 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 Apr 9.
When is the first frost in Eagle Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eagle Point typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eagle Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eagle Point sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 26, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eagle Point?
The federal record around Eagle Point is a meaningful one — 507 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (216), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Eagle Point?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eagle Point's scale — its 8b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eagle Point'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 Eagle Point’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Eagle Point's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,900 acres it covers and 507 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eagle Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eagle Point's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 9 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 507 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eagle Point, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eagle Point's boundary and the 1,900 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eagle Point's own centroid, the Klamath Mountains/California High North Coast RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eagle Point's 1,900 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jackson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jackson 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 Jackson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eagle Point's 1,900 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eagle Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,900 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Eagle Point-wide figureread your own land →
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