Hinton, OK 73047 Frost Dates
Hinton, OK: when does the frost end?
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 Hinton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Hinton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hinton's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 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.
Hinton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Hinton places 16,003 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 550 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73047's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hinton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hinton's dates instead of trusting one.