Reydon, OK 73642 Frost Dates
73642, near Reydon, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Reydon sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Reydon's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Reydon's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Reydon against the rest of the dataset
Reydon's growing season runs about 194 days, ranking 19,649 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 728 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73642: local microclimates, on what one yard in Reydon can differ from the 73642 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Reydon's frost date answer different questions.