Trent, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Trent, 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 Trent lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Trent — the short answer
Trent, Oregon: USDA zone 8b, about 284 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Lane County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Lane County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~284
- Lane County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Lane County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Trent's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Trent's 284-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Trent
Each reading below is measured for Trent itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTrent runs about 284 days between hard freezes (read from Lane County, the closest normal to Trent) — 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
MeasuredTrent 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 Trent is in
Trent sits in the Willamette Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Trent's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lane County is mostly Cascades. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Trent
Every plant below cleared Trent's own zone 8b and its 284-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Trent?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Trent
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Trent. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ELIJAH BRISTOWUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Snyder Ranch ArsenicMining · 0.8 mi
- ON THE WAY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- JASPER SAWMILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- MCDOUGAL BROS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- LOG-O-LOGGING, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- NORTHWEST ACCESS COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- H TOMMILA TRUCKING LLCBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- FALL CREEK MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- NATRON JASPER WOOD PRODUCTSBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- NATRON JASPER WOOD PRODUCTSToxics Release Inventory · 2.6 mi
- DEXTER DAM USACEBrownfields · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Trent'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 Trent.
Total Sites
226
within ~10 miles of Trent
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Trent
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Trent
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Trent, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Trent — Superfund (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (152 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Trent
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 Trent average
Your land is one point inside Trent
Everything above resolves to Trent as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Lane County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 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 Trent Average
Trent Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Trent
- ●One soil character for all of Trent
- ●Frost dates read at Trent's scale: Feb 17 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Trent's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Trent
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Trent, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Trent averages can't show:
We read public map data around Trent — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Trent average
How we know this about Trent
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 Lane 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 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 Trent
When does frost risk typically end in Trent?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Trent typically lands around Feb 17, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Trent?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Trent typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 284 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Trent?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Trent sees about 284 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 14, about 249 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Trent?
The federal record around Trent is a meaningful one — 226 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (152), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Trent?
From about Oct 29 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Trent's scale — its 8b band and its 284-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Trent'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 Trent’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Trent's own scale — the 1,014 acres it covers and 226 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Trent's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 226 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Trent, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Trent's boundary and the 1,014 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~284-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Trent sits in the Willamette Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Trent has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Lane County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Trent's 1,014 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lane County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lane 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 Lane County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Trent's 1,014 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Trent you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,014 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Trent-wide figureread your own land →