Newcastle, OK 73065 Frost Dates
Newcastle, OK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Newcastle sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Newcastle's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newcastle's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newcastle against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Newcastle's last and first frost, putting it 12,980 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 218 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73065's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Newcastle's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Newcastle can differ from the 73065 normal.