Rush Springs, OK 73082 Frost Dates
Rush Springs, OK: when does the frost end?
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 Rush Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Rush Springs'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
04/13 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.
Rush Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Rush Springs places 19,027 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 696 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73082's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Rush Springs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Rush Springs can differ from the 73082 normal.