Covington, OK 73730 Frost Dates
Covington, OK: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Covington in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Covington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Covington's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 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.
Covington against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Covington's last and first frost, putting it 17,635 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 648 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73730's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Covington's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Covington's dates instead of trusting one.