Felida, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Felida, 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 Felida 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 Felida — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Felida — the short answer
Felida, Washington: USDA zone 8b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- Clark County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- Clark County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- Clark County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Clark County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Felida's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Felida's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Felida
Each reading below is measured for Felida itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFelida runs about 217 days between hard freezes (read from Clark County, the closest normal to Felida) — 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
MeasuredFelida 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 Felida is in
Felida sits in the Willamette Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Felida's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clark County.
What Grows in Felida
Every plant below cleared Felida's own zone 8b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Felida?
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 Feb 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Felida
Survey cells within 31 miles of Felida checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 551 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Felida
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Felida. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MINIT MART ASTRO 725Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SALMON CREEK WASTE WATER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- STATION 2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- DYNES TRUCKING LLCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- B&B COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- HAWTHORNE HYDROPONICSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS WASTE TREATMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 03N/01E-33Q01Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- NEW COLUMBIA GARDEN CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- PRO TECH IND INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- COLUMBIA RIVER HS FIELD IMPROVEMENTSBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- FRED MEYER 460 FM FUELUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Felida'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 Felida.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Felida
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Felida
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Felida, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Felida — Superfund (28 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (134 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Felida
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 Felida average
Your land is one point inside Felida
Everything above resolves to Felida as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Clark 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 Felida Average
Felida Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Felida
- ●One soil character for all of Felida
- ●Frost dates read at Felida's scale: Mar 28 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Felida's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Felida
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Felida, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Felida averages can't show:
We read public map data around Felida — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Felida average
How we know this about Felida
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 Clark 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 Felida
When does frost risk typically end in Felida?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Felida typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 18.
When is the first frost in Felida?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Felida typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Felida?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Felida sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 17, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Felida?
The federal record around Felida runs heavier than most — 1,471 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (807), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Felida?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Felida's scale — its 8b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Felida'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 Felida’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Felida's own scale — the 1,860 acres it covers and 1,471 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Felida's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 1,471 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Felida, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Felida's boundary and the 1,860 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Felida's own centroid, the Willamette ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Felida checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Felida has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Clark County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Felida's 1,860 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clark County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clark County
- The growing challenges every Washington grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Washington
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Clark County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Felida's 1,860 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Felida you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,860 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Felida-wide figureread your own land →