Gage, OK 73843 Frost Dates
Gage, OK: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 185 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 Gage, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Gage's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Gage against the rest of the dataset
Gage's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,298 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 752 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73843's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gage can differ from the 73843 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Gage's frost date answer different questions.