Pond Creek, OK 73766 Frost Dates
73766, near Pond Creek, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 183 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 Pond Creek, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pond Creek'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pond Creek against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Pond Creek's last and first frost, putting it 23,932 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 756 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73766: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Pond Creek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pond Creek's dates instead of trusting one.