Moffett, OK 72904 Frost Dates
72904, near Moffett, OK: the frost window
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Moffett, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Moffett's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moffett against the rest of the dataset
Moffett's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,985 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 104 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72904: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moffett can differ from the 72904 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Moffett's frost date answer different questions.