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Seiling, OK 73838 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Seiling, OK, ZIP 73838

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 194 frost-free days later.

Seiling 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 Seiling has about 8 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.

How much risk comes with planting early here

04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Seiling compares

At roughly 194 frost-free days, Seiling places 19,546 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 721 of 764.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Seiling's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Seiling's dates instead of trusting one.