Oregon Shores, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Oregon Shores, 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 Oregon Shores lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Oregon Shores — the short answer
Oregon Shores, Oregon: USDA zone 6b, about 130 days between hard freezes, across 707 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~130
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 707 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 Oregon Shores's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Oregon Shores's 130-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Oregon Shores
Each reading below is measured for Oregon Shores itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOregon Shores runs about 130 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
MeasuredOregon Shores 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 Oregon Shores is in
Oregon Shores sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Oregon Shores's own centroid rather than borrowed from Klamath County.
What Grows in Oregon Shores
Every plant below cleared Oregon Shores's own zone 6b and its 130-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Oregon Shores?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Oregon Shores
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Oregon Shores. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JELD-WENUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- WILLIAMSON BUSINESS PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- JELD WEN INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 2.7 mi
- JELD WEN INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- CHILOQUIN PACIFIC PRIDEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- USDA USFS R06 WINEMA NF CHILOQUIN RANGER DISTBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- WOOD RIVER RANCH MARSH PIEZOMETER NO. 1Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- CASCADE 97Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- NORTH TULANA PUMP HOUSE WELL NO. 2Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- NORTH TULANA PUMP HOUSE WELL NO. 1Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- CHILOQUIN FOREST PRODUCTS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- COLLIER MEMORIAL STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Oregon Shores'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 Oregon Shores.
Total Sites
60
within ~10 miles of Oregon Shores
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Oregon Shores
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Oregon Shores
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Oregon Shores, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 34 sites within ~10 miles of Oregon Shores. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Oregon Shores
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 Oregon Shores
Everything above resolves to Oregon Shores as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 707 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 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 Oregon Shores Average
Oregon Shores Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Oregon Shores
- ●One soil character for all of Oregon Shores
- ●Frost dates read at Oregon Shores's scale: May 18 to Sep 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Oregon Shores's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Oregon Shores
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Three things about your lot that Oregon Shores averages can't show:
We read public map data around Oregon Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Oregon Shores average
How we know this about Oregon Shores
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 Oregon Shores’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 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 Oregon Shores
When does frost risk typically end in Oregon Shores?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Oregon Shores typically lands around May 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Oregon Shores?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Oregon Shores typically arrives around Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 11, so the watching starts about Aug 26 — about 130 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Oregon Shores?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Oregon Shores sees about 130 frost-free days — roughly May 18 through Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 8 to Sep 11, about 95 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Oregon Shores?
The federal record around Oregon Shores shows 60 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (34), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 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 gardeners stretch the season in Oregon Shores?
With about 130 frost-free days between hard freezes, Oregon Shores 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 158 to 186 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 18 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Oregon Shores's scale — its 6b band and its 130-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Oregon Shores'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 Oregon Shores’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Oregon Shores's own scale — its own ~130-day season between 28°F freezes, the 707 acres it covers and 60 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Oregon Shores's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Oregon Shores's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 18 and Sep 25 and the ~130-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 60 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Oregon Shores, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Oregon Shores's boundary and the 707 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~130-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Oregon Shores'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 Oregon Shores's 707 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 Oregon Shores's 707 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Oregon Shores you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 707 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 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 Oregon Shores-wide figureread your own land →
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