Crescent, OK 73028 Frost Dates
73028, near Crescent, OK: the frost window
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Crescent in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Crescent'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crescent against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Crescent's last and first frost, putting it 17,561 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 641 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73028: local microclimates, on what one yard in Crescent can differ from the 73028 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Crescent's frost date answer different questions.