Lone Wolf, OK 73655 Frost Dates
Lone Wolf, OK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 209 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 Lone Wolf, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lone Wolf's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lone Wolf against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Lone Wolf's last and first frost, putting it 15,403 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 502 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73655's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Lone Wolf's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lone Wolf's dates instead of trusting one.