Texola, OK 73668 Frost Dates
73668, near Texola, OK: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Texola in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Texola's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Texola's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Texola against the rest of the dataset
Texola's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,211 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 366 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73668: the frost range, on how to read the range around Texola's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Texola can differ from the 73668 normal.