Taloga, OK 73667 Frost Dates
73667, near Taloga, OK: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Taloga 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
Taloga'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.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
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.
Taloga against the rest of the dataset
Taloga's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,765 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 609 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73667: local microclimates, on what one yard in Taloga can differ from the 73667 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Taloga's frost date answer different questions.