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Dacoma, OK 73731 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Dacoma, OK, ZIP 73731

Zone 7a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 196 frost-free days later.

Dacoma 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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7a around Dacoma has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Dacoma's last frost

04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Dacoma compares

At roughly 196 frost-free days, Dacoma places 19,112 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 702 of 764.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Dacoma's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Dacoma can differ from the 73731 normal.