Warr Acres, OK 73132 Frost Dates
73132, near Warr Acres, OK: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Warr Acres 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
Warr Acres's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Warr Acres against the rest of the dataset
Warr Acres's growing season runs about 216 days, ranking 13,750 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 313 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73132: local microclimates, on what one yard in Warr Acres can differ from the 73132 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Warr Acres's frost date answer different questions.