Fargo, OK 73840 Frost Dates
Fargo, OK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Fargo 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Fargo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fargo's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 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.
Fargo against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Fargo places 23,317 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 753 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73840's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fargo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fargo can differ from the 73840 normal.