Sublimity, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Sublimity, 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 Sublimity 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 Sublimity — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sublimity — the short answer
Sublimity, Oregon: USDA zone 8b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 600 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- Marion County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- Marion County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- Marion County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 600 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 Marion County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Sublimity's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sublimity's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sublimity
Each reading below is measured for Sublimity itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsSublimity runs about 243 days between hard freezes (read from Marion County, the closest normal to Sublimity) — 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
MeasuredSublimity sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Sublimity is in
Sublimity sits in the Willamette Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Sublimity's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marion County.
What Grows in Sublimity
Every plant below cleared Sublimity's own zone 8b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sublimity?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Sublimity
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sublimity checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 490 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sublimity
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sublimity. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DENSON REALTY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- STOP N SAVE #4Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- NORTH SANTIAM SD 29J SUBLIMITY MID SCHBrownfields · 1000 ft
- HENDRICKS, ANTHONYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SUBLIMITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 1500 ft
- STAYTON ARCO AM/PMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- RICHARD SCHUMACHER FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- TRUAXUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- STAYTON MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- STAYTON RURAL FIRE DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- STEVE WHEELER TIRE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- LILLIAN HUMPHREYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sublimity'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 Sublimity.
Total Sites
157
within ~10 miles of Sublimity
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sublimity
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sublimity
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sublimity, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sublimity — PFAS (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (103 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Sublimity
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 Sublimity average
Your land is one point inside Sublimity
Everything above resolves to Sublimity as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 600 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Marion County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 city 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 Sublimity Average
Sublimity Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Sublimity
- ●One soil character for all of Sublimity
- ●Frost dates read at Sublimity's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sublimity's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Sublimity
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sublimity, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sublimity averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sublimity — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sublimity average
How we know this about Sublimity
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Marion 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Sublimity
When does frost risk typically end in Sublimity?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sublimity typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Sublimity?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sublimity typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sublimity?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sublimity sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 7, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sublimity?
The federal record around Sublimity shows 157 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (103), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Sublimity?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sublimity's scale — its 8b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sublimity'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 Sublimity’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Sublimity's own scale — the 600 acres it covers and 157 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sublimity's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 157 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sublimity, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sublimity's boundary and the 600 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sublimity's own centroid, the Willamette ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sublimity checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Sublimity has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Marion County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sublimity's 600 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marion 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 Marion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sublimity's 600 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sublimity you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 600 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Sublimity-wide figureread your own land →