Mead, OK 73449 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Mead, OK?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 237 frost-free days later.
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 Mead, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Mead before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Mead's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mead compares
At roughly 237 frost-free days, Mead places 9,167 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 18 of 764.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Mead's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Mead's dates instead of trusting one.