Rose Lodge, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Rose Lodge, 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 Rose Lodge lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rose Lodge — the short answer
Rose Lodge, Oregon: USDA zone 9a, about 291 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~291
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 9a is Rose Lodge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rose Lodge's 291-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rose Lodge
Each reading below is measured for Rose Lodge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRose Lodge runs about 291 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
MeasuredRose Lodge 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 Rose Lodge is in
Rose Lodge sits in the Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Rose Lodge's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lincoln County.
What Grows in Rose Lodge
Every plant below cleared Rose Lodge's own zone 9a and its 291-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rose Lodge?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Rose Lodge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rose Lodge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ROSE LODGE PARK STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ODOT ROSE LODGE MAINTENANCEBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- OTIS MARKET LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- LEMATTA PROPERTIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- LAKESIDE GOLF & RACQUET CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- WASTE WATER PUMP STATION #28Underground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- SAMARITAN NORTH LINCOLN HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- ROADS END SANITARY DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- SAFEWAY STORE NO 415Brownfields · 5.9 mi
- WALGREENS #9875Brownfields · 5.9 mi
- WATER TREATMENT PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- SHELL - 505Underground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rose Lodge'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 Rose Lodge.
Total Sites
65
within ~10 miles of Rose Lodge
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rose Lodge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rose Lodge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rose Lodge, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 56 sites within ~10 miles of Rose Lodge. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Rose Lodge
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 Rose Lodge average
Your land is one point inside Rose Lodge
Everything above resolves to Rose Lodge as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Rose Lodge Average
Rose Lodge Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Rose Lodge
- ●One soil character for all of Rose Lodge
- ●Frost dates read at Rose Lodge's scale: Feb 12 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rose Lodge's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rose Lodge, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Rose Lodge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rose Lodge average
How we know this about Rose Lodge
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 Rose Lodge’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 Rose Lodge
When does frost risk typically end in Rose Lodge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rose Lodge typically lands around Feb 12, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Rose Lodge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rose Lodge typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 291 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rose Lodge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rose Lodge sees about 291 frost-free days — roughly Feb 12 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 5 to Nov 16, about 256 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rose Lodge?
The federal record around Rose Lodge shows 65 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (56), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Rose Lodge?
From about Oct 31 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 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 Nov 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rose Lodge's scale — its 9a band and its 291-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rose Lodge'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 Rose Lodge’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Rose Lodge's own scale — its own ~291-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,136 acres it covers and 65 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rose Lodge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rose Lodge's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 12 and Nov 30 and the ~291-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 65 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rose Lodge, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rose Lodge's boundary and the 6,136 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~291-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rose Lodge's own centroid, the Coast RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rose Lodge's 6,136 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lincoln County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lincoln 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 Lincoln County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rose Lodge's 6,136 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rose Lodge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,136 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Rose Lodge-wide figureread your own land →