Pine Hollow, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pine Hollow, 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 Pine Hollow 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 Pine Hollow — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pine Hollow — the short answer
Pine Hollow, Oregon: USDA zone 7a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 7a is Pine Hollow's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Hollow's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pine Hollow
Each reading below is measured for Pine Hollow itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPine Hollow runs about 208 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPine Hollow sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Pine Hollow is in
Pine Hollow sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Pine Hollow's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Wasco County is mostly Columbia Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Pine Hollow
Every plant below cleared Pine Hollow's own zone 7a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pine Hollow?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Pine Hollow
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pine Hollow checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 520 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pine Hollow
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Hollow. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 04.00S/12.00E-11CCNitrate · 0.6 mi
- WAMIC AUTO PARTS AND REPAIRBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- WASCO COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- PINE HOLLOW LAKESIDE RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- DAVIS, JR. IRLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- BROWN'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- WHEELON OIL COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- TYEE KEY LOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- GVB BIOPHARMA - TYGH VALLEYBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- MOUNTAIN FIR LMBR CO INC/TYGH VALLEY DIVUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- WHITE RIVER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- WALTERS, EUGENE HUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
1 more site is on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Hollow'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 Pine Hollow.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Hollow
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Hollow
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
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Your land is one point inside Pine Hollow
Everything above resolves to Pine Hollow as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Pine Hollow Average
Pine Hollow Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Pine Hollow
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Hollow
- ●Frost dates read at Pine Hollow's scale: Apr 5 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Hollow's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine Hollow
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Hollow, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Pine Hollow — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Hollow average
How we know this about Pine Hollow
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 Pine Hollow’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 Pine Hollow
When does frost risk typically end in Pine Hollow?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Hollow typically lands around Apr 5, 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 Apr 26.
When is the first frost in Pine Hollow?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Hollow typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pine Hollow?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pine Hollow sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 16, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pine Hollow?
The federal record around Pine Hollow is light — 14 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (10), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pine Hollow?
From about Sep 30 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 Oct 30 (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 Oct 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pine Hollow's scale — its 7a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Hollow'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 Pine Hollow’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pine Hollow's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,421 acres it covers and 14 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Hollow's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pine Hollow's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Oct 30 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 14 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Hollow, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Hollow's boundary and the 1,421 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pine Hollow sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pine Hollow 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 Pine Hollow's 1,421 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wasco County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wasco 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 Wasco County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pine Hollow's 1,421 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Hollow you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,421 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Pine Hollow-wide figureread your own land →