Marlene Village, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Marlene Village, 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 Marlene Village 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 Marlene Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Marlene Village — the short answer
Marlene Village, Oregon: USDA zone 9a, about 274 days between hard freezes, across 580 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 22
- Washington County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- Washington County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~274
- Washington County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 580 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 Washington County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Marlene Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marlene Village's 274-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Marlene Village
Each reading below is measured for Marlene Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMarlene Village runs about 274 days between hard freezes (read from Washington County, the closest normal to Marlene Village) — 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
MeasuredMarlene Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Marlene Village is in
Marlene Village sits in the Willamette Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Marlene Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Washington County.
What Grows in Marlene Village
Every plant below cleared Marlene Village's own zone 9a and its 274-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Marlene Village?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
Documented around Marlene Village
Survey cells within 31 miles of Marlene Village checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 538 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Marlene Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marlene Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BEAVERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT 48 MEADOW PARKBrownfields · 750 ft
- CAIN PETROLEUM- MURRAY ROADUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- AL TAYLOR'S TIRE FACTORY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- LEUPOLD AND STEVENSToxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- LEUPOLD AND STEVENSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- AUTO BODY BEAUTIFULBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- THE HOME DEPOT 4001Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- ELECTRO SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- WALKER ROAD CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PANOCO INC #56Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- AUTOZONE NO 3705Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- SUNSET SHOPPING CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marlene Village'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 Marlene Village.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Marlene Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marlene Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marlene Village, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 247 sites within ~10 miles of Marlene Village. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Marlene Village
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 Marlene Village average
Your land is one point inside Marlene Village
Everything above resolves to Marlene Village as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 580 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Washington 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 Marlene Village Average
Marlene Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Marlene Village
- ●One soil character for all of Marlene Village
- ●Frost dates read at Marlene Village's scale: Feb 22 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marlene Village's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Marlene Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marlene Village, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marlene Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marlene Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marlene Village average
How we know this about Marlene Village
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 Washington 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 Marlene Village
When does frost risk typically end in Marlene Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Marlene Village 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 Marlene Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Marlene Village typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 274 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Marlene Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Marlene Village sees about 274 frost-free days — roughly Feb 22 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 15 to Nov 9, about 239 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Marlene Village?
The federal record around Marlene Village runs heavier than most — 3,607 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,867), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Marlene Village?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Marlene Village's scale — its 9a band and its 274-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Marlene Village'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 Marlene Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Marlene Village's own scale — the 580 acres it covers and 3,607 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marlene Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 3,607 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marlene Village, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marlene Village's boundary and the 580 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~274-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marlene Village's own centroid, the Willamette ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Marlene Village checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Marlene Village has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Washington County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Marlene Village's 580 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marlene Village's 580 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marlene Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 580 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Marlene Village-wide figureread your own land →