Running Y Ranch, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Running Y Ranch, 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 Running Y Ranch lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Running Y Ranch — the short answer
Running Y Ranch, Oregon: USDA zone 6b, about 135 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~135
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Running Y Ranch's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Running Y Ranch's 135-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Running Y Ranch
Each reading below is measured for Running Y Ranch itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRunning Y Ranch runs about 135 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
MeasuredRunning Y Ranch 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 Running Y Ranch is in
Running Y Ranch sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Running Y Ranch's own centroid rather than borrowed from Klamath County.
What Grows in Running Y Ranch
Every plant below cleared Running Y Ranch's own zone 6b and its 135-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Running Y Ranch?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 28 — 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 Running Y Ranch
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Running Y Ranch. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RUNING Y RANCH HEADQUARTER WELL NO. 1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- RUNNING Y SOUTH CALEDONIA WELL NO. 1Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- OLENE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- RUNNING Y RANCH DRAINAGE DITCH WELL NO. 1Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- RUNNING Y RANCH NR WOCUS BAY PUMP HOUT WELL NO. 1Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- PUTNAM POINTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- RUNNING Y RANCH NR CALEDONIA MARSH WELL NO. 1Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- ELECTRO SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES, INC.Brownfields · 3.7 mi
- DBA JELD-WENToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- DBA JELD-WENBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- JELD-WEN INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- BUR. OF RECLAMTN HOUSE-GERBER RESERVOIRBrownfields · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Running Y Ranch'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 Running Y Ranch.
Total Sites
251
within ~10 miles of Running Y Ranch
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Running Y Ranch
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Running Y Ranch
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Running Y Ranch, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 184 sites within ~10 miles of Running Y Ranch. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
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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 Running Y Ranch average
Your land is one point inside Running Y Ranch
Everything above resolves to Running Y Ranch as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Running Y Ranch Average
Running Y Ranch Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Running Y Ranch
- ●One soil character for all of Running Y Ranch
- ●Frost dates read at Running Y Ranch's scale: May 16 to Sep 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Running Y Ranch's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Running Y Ranch — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Running Y Ranch average
How we know this about Running Y Ranch
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 Running Y Ranch’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 Running Y Ranch
When does frost risk typically end in Running Y Ranch?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Running Y Ranch typically lands around May 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Running Y Ranch?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Running Y Ranch typically arrives around Sep 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 14, so the watching starts about Aug 29 — about 135 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Running Y Ranch?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Running Y Ranch sees about 135 frost-free days — roughly May 16 through Sep 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 6 to Sep 14, about 100 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Running Y Ranch?
The federal record around Running Y Ranch is a meaningful one — 251 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (184), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Running Y Ranch?
With about 135 frost-free days between hard freezes, Running Y Ranch 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 163 to 191 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 16 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Running Y Ranch's scale — its 6b band and its 135-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Running Y Ranch'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 Running Y Ranch’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Running Y Ranch's own scale — its own ~135-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,039 acres it covers and 251 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Running Y Ranch's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Running Y Ranch's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 16 and Sep 28 and the ~135-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 251 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Running Y Ranch, the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Running Y Ranch's boundary and the 3,039 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~135-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Running Y Ranch'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 Running Y Ranch's 3,039 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 Running Y Ranch's 3,039 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Running Y Ranch you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,039 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Running Y Ranch-wide figureread your own land →
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