Okeene, OK 73747 Frost Dates
73747, near Okeene, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Okeene 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
Okeene'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.
The actual range around Okeene's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 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.
Okeene against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Okeene's last and first frost, putting it 15,684 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 520 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73747: local microclimates, on what one yard in Okeene can differ from the 73747 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Okeene's frost date answer different questions.