Warr Acres, OK 73172 Frost Dates
73172, near Warr Acres, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Warr Acres places 13,752 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 315 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73172: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Warr Acres's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Warr Acres's dates instead of trusting one.