Ratliff City, OK 73425 Frost Dates
Ratliff City, OK: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Ratliff City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Ratliff City'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
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 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.
Ratliff City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Ratliff City places 11,086 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 73 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73425's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Ratliff City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Ratliff City's dates instead of trusting one.