Leedey, OK 73654 Frost Dates
73654, near Leedey, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 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 Leedey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Leedey'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 Leedey's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leedey against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Leedey's last and first frost, putting it 16,738 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 605 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73654: local microclimates, on what one yard in Leedey can differ from the 73654 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Leedey's frost date answer different questions.