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Pauls Valley, OK 73075 Frost Dates

73075, near Pauls Valley, OK: the frost window

Zone 7b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pauls Valley in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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

Pauls Valley'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.

The actual range around Pauls Valley's last frost

04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Pauls Valley against the rest of the dataset

Pauls Valley's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,002 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 466 of 764.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 73075: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Pauls Valley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pauls Valley's dates instead of trusting one.