Takilma, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Takilma, 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 Takilma 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 Takilma — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Takilma — the short answer
Takilma, Oregon: USDA zone 8b, about 177 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~177
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 8b is Takilma's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Takilma's 177-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Takilma
Each reading below is measured for Takilma itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTakilma runs about 177 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTakilma 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 Takilma is in
Takilma sits in the Klamath Mountains/California High North Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Takilma's own centroid rather than borrowed from Josephine County.
What Grows in Takilma
Every plant below cleared Takilma's own zone 8b and its 177-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Takilma?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Takilma
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Takilma. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Lilly MineMining · 0.7 mi
- Daisy Mining CompanyMining · 0.7 mi
- DaisyMining · 0.8 mi
- LillyMining · 0.9 mi
- High GravelMining · 1.1 mi
- Queen of BronzeMining · 1.1 mi
- Platerica MineMining · 1.1 mi
- Waldo Copper MineMining · 1.2 mi
- High Gravel MineMining · 1.2 mi
- Queen of Bronze MineMining · 1.3 mi
- North and South Queen of BronzeMining · 1.3 mi
- OwensMining · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Takilma'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 Takilma.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Takilma
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Takilma
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Takilma, Mining runs higher than the national average — 165 sites within ~10 miles of Takilma. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Takilma
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 Takilma average
Your land is one point inside Takilma
Everything above resolves to Takilma as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Takilma Average
Takilma Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Takilma
- ●One soil character for all of Takilma
- ●Frost dates read at Takilma's scale: Apr 30 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Takilma's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Takilma
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Takilma, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Takilma averages can't show:
We read public map data around Takilma — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Takilma average
How we know this about Takilma
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 Takilma’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 Takilma
When does frost risk typically end in Takilma?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Takilma typically lands around Apr 30, 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 May 21.
When is the first frost in Takilma?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Takilma typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 177 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Takilma?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Takilma sees about 177 frost-free days — roughly Apr 30 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 21 to Oct 10, about 142 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Takilma?
The federal record around Takilma is a meaningful one — 194 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (165), the nearest Mining 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 I protect my plants from frost in Takilma?
From about Sep 24 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Takilma's scale — its 8b band and its 177-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Takilma'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 Takilma’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Takilma's own scale — its own ~177-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,804 acres it covers and 194 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Takilma's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Takilma's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 30 and Oct 24 and the ~177-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 194 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Takilma, the closest Mining record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Takilma's boundary and the 3,804 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~177-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Takilma's own centroid, the Klamath Mountains/California High North Coast RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Takilma's 3,804 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Josephine County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Josephine 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 Josephine County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Takilma's 3,804 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Takilma you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,804 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining 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 Takilma-wide figureread your own land →
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