Orlando, OK 73073 Frost Dates
Orlando, OK: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Orlando sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 8 weeks until Orlando's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 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.
Orlando against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Orlando's last and first frost, putting it 18,555 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 684 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73073's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Orlando's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Orlando can differ from the 73073 normal.