FrostDateCheck

Tishomingo, OK 73460 Frost Dates

Tishomingo, OK: when does the frost end?

Zone 8a

Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.

Tishomingo sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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

With roughly 10 weeks until Tishomingo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Tishomingo's last frost

03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 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.

Tishomingo against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 221 frost-free days, Tishomingo places 12,517 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 129 of 764.

Learn more

Before leaning on 73460's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Tishomingo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Tishomingo can differ from the 73460 normal.