Westfir, 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.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Westfir, 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 Westfir 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 Westfir — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Westfir — the short answer
Westfir, Oregon: USDA zone 8b, about 269 days between hard freezes, across 201 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~269
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 201 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 Westfir's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Westfir's 269-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Westfir
Each reading below is measured for Westfir itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWestfir runs about 269 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
MeasuredWestfir 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 Westfir is in
Westfir sits in the Cascades — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Westfir's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lane County.
What Grows in Westfir
Every plant below cleared Westfir's own zone 8b and its 269-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Westfir?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Westfir
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Westfir. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RON'S OIL #24Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- HEDEGAARD, JOHN GOMBERT & DOROTHY JUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- SOUTHERN PACIFIC SITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- OAKRIDGE SECTION & SIGNALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- UNION PACIFIC RAILROADUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 58 MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WESTRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- OAKRIDGE CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- TM & R LOGGINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- UNOCAL 0539Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- UNOCAL 4381Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- ODOT OAKRIDGE MAINT SECBrownfields · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Westfir'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 Westfir.
Total Sites
39
within ~10 miles of Westfir
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Westfir
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Westfir, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 33 sites within ~10 miles of Westfir. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Westfir
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 Westfir average
Your land is one point inside Westfir
Everything above resolves to Westfir as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 201 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 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 Westfir Average
Westfir Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Westfir
- ●One soil character for all of Westfir
- ●Frost dates read at Westfir's scale: Feb 28 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Westfir's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Westfir
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Westfir, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Westfir averages can't show:
We read public map data around Westfir — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Westfir average
How we know this about Westfir
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 Westfir’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 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 Westfir
When does frost risk typically end in Westfir?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Westfir typically lands around Feb 28, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Westfir?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Westfir typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 269 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Westfir?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Westfir sees about 269 frost-free days — roughly Feb 28 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 21 to Nov 10, about 234 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Westfir?
The federal record around Westfir is a meaningful one — 39 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (33), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Westfir?
From about Oct 25 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 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 Nov 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Westfir's scale — its 8b band and its 269-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Westfir'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 Westfir’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Westfir's own scale — its own ~269-day season between 28°F freezes, the 201 acres it covers and 39 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Westfir's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Westfir's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 28 and Nov 24 and the ~269-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 39 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Westfir, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Westfir's boundary and the 201 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~269-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Westfir's own centroid, the CascadesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Westfir's 201 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 Westfir's 201 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Westfir you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 201 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Westfir-wide figureread your own land →