FrostDateCheck

Lindsay, OK 73052 Frost Dates

Lindsay, OK: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 196 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 Lindsay, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Lindsay's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Lindsay's last frost

04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Lindsay against the rest of the dataset

Lindsay's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 18,978 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 695 of 764.

Learn more

Before leaning on 73052's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lindsay's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lindsay can differ from the 73052 normal.