Malin, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Malin, 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 Malin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Malin — the short answer
Malin, Oregon: USDA zone 6b, about 137 days between hard freezes, across 319 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~137
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 319 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 Malin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Malin's 137-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Malin
Each reading below is measured for Malin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMalin runs about 137 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMalin 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 Malin is in
Malin sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Malin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Klamath County.
What Grows in Malin
Every plant below cleared Malin's own zone 6b and its 137-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Malin?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. When the window is tight, the fall moves are quick ones — baby greens, radishes, and garlic set for next season.
What's on the federal record near Malin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Malin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MALIN GAS MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- MALIN, CITY SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- UPTOWN SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- USDOE BPA MALIN MAINTENANCE HEADQUARTERSBrownfields · 850 ft
- MALIN GRAIN & FEED CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- MALIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- BN RR - MALIN #354Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- KLAMATH POTATO DIST. INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- MALIN CARDLOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- MUNY LIFE INSURANCE CO. MCVAY FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- STATELINE SPRAYERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MALIN AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Malin'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 Malin.
Total Sites
54
within ~10 miles of Malin
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Malin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Malin
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Malin
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 Malin
Everything above resolves to Malin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 319 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 Malin Average
Malin Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Malin
- ●One soil character for all of Malin
- ●Frost dates read at Malin's scale: May 15 to Sep 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Malin's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Malin
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We read public map data around Malin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Malin average
How we know this about Malin
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 Malin’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 Malin
When does frost risk typically end in Malin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Malin typically lands around May 15, 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 Jun 5.
When is the first frost in Malin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Malin typically arrives around Sep 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 15, so the watching starts about Aug 30 — about 137 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Malin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Malin sees about 137 frost-free days — roughly May 15 through Sep 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 5 to Sep 15, about 102 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Malin?
The federal record around Malin is a meaningful one — 54 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (23), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 gardeners stretch the season in Malin?
With about 137 frost-free days between hard freezes, Malin rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 165 to 193 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 15 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Malin's scale — its 6b band and its 137-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Malin'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 Malin’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Malin's own scale — its own ~137-day season between 28°F freezes, the 319 acres it covers and 54 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Malin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Malin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 15 and Sep 29 and the ~137-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 54 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Malin, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Malin's boundary and the 319 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~137-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Malin's own centroid, the Eastern Cascades Slopes and FoothillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Malin's 319 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Klamath County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Klamath 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 Klamath County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Malin's 319 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Malin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 319 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Malin-wide figureread your own land →
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