Randlett, OK 73562 Frost Dates
73562, near Randlett, OK: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
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 Randlett, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Randlett'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.
The actual range around Randlett's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 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.
Randlett against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 218 frost-free days, Randlett places 13,338 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 237 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73562: the frost range, on how to read the range around Randlett's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Randlett can differ from the 73562 normal.