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Moore, OK 73160 Frost Dates

73160, near Moore, 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 213 days after the last spring frost.

Moore 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

Moore'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 Moore's last frost

04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Moore against the rest of the dataset

Moore's growing season runs about 213 days, ranking 14,431 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 394 of 764.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 73160: the frost range, on how to read the range around Moore's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Moore can differ from the 73160 normal.