Flagpole installation inMedford, OR

Flagpoles in Medford

The commercial and medical hub of southern Oregon, sitting on the floor of a valley closed in by mountains on both sides. We cover Medford and the Jackson County area, including downtown Medford and the Craterian block, the Asante and Providence medical campuses, the Biddle Road and Crater Lake Highway commercial corridors, Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport, the Bear Creek greenway, and Central Point and White City.

Wind here. Medford sits in an enclosed, inland and dry area, which works out to roughly 95 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. At about 95 mph Medford sizes as easily as anywhere we work, and wind is not what makes a job here different. The Rogue Valley is a closed bowl, and what fills it is smoke: the county has ranked among the worst in the country for short-term particle pollution, and a flag that goes up clean in June can come down grey in September, so how often a flag gets changed belongs in the Medford conversation from the beginning. Fire is the harder version of the same fact. The Almeda Fire ran north up the valley through Phoenix and Talent in September 2020 and took most of two towns with it, so a good deal of the building along that corridor is younger than the fire. Summers here are the hottest and driest in western Oregon, and a mill finish chalks faster than it would in Portland, which is where anodized earns its cost.

Most of the people who call us from Medford are hospitals and medical offices, packing houses and food processors, car dealerships and Biddle Road frontage, school district and college buildings, churches, veterans posts and county facilities.