Garber, OK 73738 Frost Dates
73738, near Garber, OK: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Garber, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Garber's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Garber's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Garber against the rest of the dataset
Garber's growing season runs about 194 days, ranking 19,557 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 723 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73738: local microclimates, on what one yard in Garber can differ from the 73738 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Garber's frost date answer different questions.