Faxon, OK 73540 Frost Dates
73540, near Faxon, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 217 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 Faxon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Faxon'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 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 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Faxon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Faxon places 13,628 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 272 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73540: local microclimates, on what one yard in Faxon can differ from the 73540 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Faxon's frost date answer different questions.