Olustee, OK 73523 Frost Dates
Olustee, OK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Olustee, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Olustee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Olustee's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Olustee against the rest of the dataset
About 214 days separate Olustee's last and first frost, putting it 14,345 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 377 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73523's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Olustee can differ from the 73523 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Olustee's frost date answer different questions.