Lyons, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lyons, 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 Lyons 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 Lyons — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lyons — the short answer
Lyons, Oregon: USDA zone 8b, about 276 days between hard freezes, across 554 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~276
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 554 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 Lyons's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lyons's 276-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lyons
Each reading below is measured for Lyons itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLyons runs about 276 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredLyons 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 Lyons is in
Lyons sits in the Willamette Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Lyons's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Linn County is mostly Cascades. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lyons
Every plant below cleared Lyons's own zone 8b and its 276-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lyons?
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 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Lyons
Survey cells within 31 miles of Lyons checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 486 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lyons
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lyons. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LINN COUNTY LYONS SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- MARI-LINN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 1200 ft
- MARI-LINN SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DON'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- LYONS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- UNION STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FRERES LUMBER CO., INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WILSON OPERATIONS, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WILSON HATCHERY & POULTRY FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- OR STATE FORESTRY - SANTIAM GUARD STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- LINN COUNTY PROPERTY MANAGEMENTBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- YOUNG & MORGAN LUMBER, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lyons'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 Lyons.
Total Sites
82
within ~10 miles of Lyons
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lyons
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lyons
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lyons, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 61 sites within ~10 miles of Lyons. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Lyons
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 Lyons average
Your land is one point inside Lyons
Everything above resolves to Lyons as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 554 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 Lyons Average
Lyons Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Lyons
- ●One soil character for all of Lyons
- ●Frost dates read at Lyons's scale: Feb 22 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lyons's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lyons
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lyons, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lyons averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lyons — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lyons average
How we know this about Lyons
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 Lyons’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 Lyons
When does frost risk typically end in Lyons?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lyons typically lands around Feb 22, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Lyons?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lyons typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 276 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lyons?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lyons sees about 276 frost-free days — roughly Feb 22 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 15 to Nov 11, about 241 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lyons?
The federal record around Lyons shows 82 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (61), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lyons?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lyons's scale — its 8b band and its 276-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lyons'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 Lyons’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lyons's own scale — its own ~276-day season between 28°F freezes, the 554 acres it covers and 82 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lyons's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lyons's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 22 and Nov 25 and the ~276-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 82 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lyons, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lyons's boundary and the 554 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~276-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lyons sits in the Willamette Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Lyons checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lyons's 554 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Linn County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Linn 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 Linn County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lyons's 554 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lyons you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 554 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 Lyons-wide figureread your own land →