Forgan, OK 73938 Frost Dates
Forgan, OK: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Forgan, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Forgan'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.
Forgan against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Forgan's last and first frost, putting it 22,914 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 748 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73938's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Forgan's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Forgan can differ from the 73938 normal.