Loco, OK 73442 Frost Dates
73442, near Loco, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Loco in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Loco'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.
The actual range around Loco's last frost
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.
Loco against the rest of the dataset
Loco's growing season runs about 227 days, ranking 11,079 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 72 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73442: the frost range, on how to read the range around Loco's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Loco can differ from the 73442 normal.