Lebam, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Lebam, 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 Lebam lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lebam — the short answer
Lebam, Washington: USDA zone 8a, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 935 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- Pacific County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- Pacific County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- Pacific County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 935 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 Pacific County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Lebam's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lebam's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lebam
Each reading below is measured for Lebam itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLebam runs about 207 days between hard freezes (read from Pacific County, the closest normal to Lebam) — 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
MeasuredLebam sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Lebam is in
Lebam sits in the Coast Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider Marine West Coast Forest. That is read at Lebam's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pacific County.
What Grows in Lebam
Every plant below cleared Lebam's own zone 8a and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lebam?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Lebam
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lebam. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- J H WOOD INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- STEVES EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- LEBAM RR/WAKO15/LEBMWAQUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- FORKS CREEK HATCHERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- TIM KEETONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- WILLAPA VALLEY SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- MENLO STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- WA DNR LAND & MINERALUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- NaselleMining · 7.8 mi
- CITY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
- GALEY'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.9 mi
Measured from Lebam'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 Lebam.
Total Sites
11
within ~10 miles of Lebam
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 mining site (prospects, none worked)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lebam
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
Check your specific parcel in Lebam
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 Lebam average
Your land is one point inside Lebam
Everything above resolves to Lebam as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 935 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Pacific 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 Lebam Average
Lebam Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Lebam
- ●One soil character for all of Lebam
- ●Frost dates read at Lebam's scale: Apr 5 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lebam's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lebam
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lebam, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lebam averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lebam — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lebam average
How we know this about Lebam
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 Pacific 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 Lebam
When does frost risk typically end in Lebam?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lebam typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Lebam?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lebam typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lebam?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lebam sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 15, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lebam?
The federal record around Lebam is light — 11 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lebam?
From about Sep 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 Oct 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lebam's scale — its 8a band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lebam'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 Lebam’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lebam's own scale — the 935 acres it covers and 11 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lebam's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 11 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lebam, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lebam's boundary and the 935 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lebam's own centroid, the Coast RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lebam has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Pacific County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lebam's 935 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pacific County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pacific 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 Pacific County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lebam's 935 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lebam you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 935 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Lebam-wide figureread your own land →
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