Gracemont, OK 73001 Frost Dates
73001, near Gracemont, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Gracemont, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gracemont's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Gracemont's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gracemont against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Gracemont places 16,131 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 568 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73001: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gracemont's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gracemont can differ from the 73001 normal.