Leon, OK 73441 Frost Dates
Leon, OK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 211 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 Leon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Leon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Leon's last frost
04/06 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 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leon against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Leon's last and first frost, putting it 14,910 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 457 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73441's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Leon can differ from the 73441 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Leon's frost date answer different questions.