Glide, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Glide, 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 Glide lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Glide — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Glide — the short answer
Glide, Oregon: USDA zone 8b, about 277 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 23
- Douglas County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- Douglas County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~277
- Douglas County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Douglas County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Glide's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Glide's 277-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Glide
Each reading below is measured for Glide itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsGlide runs about 277 days between hard freezes (read from Douglas County, the closest normal to Glide) — 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
MeasuredGlide 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 Glide is in
Glide sits in the Klamath Mountains/California High North Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Glide's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Douglas County is mostly Cascades. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Glide
Every plant below cleared Glide's own zone 8b and its 277-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Glide?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 23 (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. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Glide
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Glide. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GLIDE LUMBER PRODUCTS COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- LIVING WATER VENTURES, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GLIDE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- GLIDE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- BUS SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- GLIDE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Livingston ProspectMining · 2.2 mi
- NORTH RIVER TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- CADDOCK ELECTRONICSBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- CADDOCK ELECTRONICSToxics Release Inventory · 2.7 mi
- GLIDE/IDLEYLD PARK SEWERAGE SYSTEMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- PEEL COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Glide'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 Glide.
Total Sites
42
within ~10 miles of Glide
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Glide
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Glide
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Glide, Mining runs higher than the national average — 16 sites within ~10 miles of Glide. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Glide
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 Glide average
Your land is one point inside Glide
Everything above resolves to Glide as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 6K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Douglas 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 Glide Average
Glide Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Glide
- ●One soil character for all of Glide
- ●Frost dates read at Glide's scale: Feb 23 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Glide's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Glide
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Glide, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Glide averages can't show:
We read public map data around Glide — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Glide average
How we know this about Glide
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 Douglas 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 Glide
When does frost risk typically end in Glide?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Glide typically lands around Feb 23, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Glide?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Glide 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 277 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Glide?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Glide sees about 277 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 13, about 242 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Glide?
The federal record around Glide is a meaningful one — 42 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (18), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Glide?
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 Glide's scale — its 8b band and its 277-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Glide'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 Glide’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Glide's own scale — the 6,453 acres it covers and 42 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Glide's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 42 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Glide, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Glide's boundary and the 6,453 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~277-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Glide sits in the Klamath Mountains/California High North Coast Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Glide has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Douglas County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Glide's 6,453 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Douglas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Douglas 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 Douglas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Glide's 6,453 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Glide you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,453 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Glide-wide figureread your own land →
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