Ratliff City, OK 73488 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Ratliff City, OK, ZIP 73488
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 227 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 Ratliff City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Ratliff City has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ratliff City compares
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Ratliff City places 11,087 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 74 of 764.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Ratliff City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Ratliff City can differ from the 73488 normal.