Gate, OK 73844 Frost Dates
Gate, OK: when does the frost end?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Gate 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 Gate'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
04/20 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 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gate against the rest of the dataset
About 183 days separate Gate's last and first frost, putting it 24,045 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 760 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73844's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gate can differ from the 73844 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Gate's frost date answer different questions.