Butler, OK 73625 Frost Dates
Butler, OK: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Butler, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Butler's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Butler's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Butler against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Butler's last and first frost, putting it 18,836 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 688 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73625's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Butler's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Butler can differ from the 73625 normal.