Bixby, OK 74008 Frost Dates
74008, near Bixby, OK: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bixby in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bixby's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bixby against the rest of the dataset
Bixby's growing season runs about 212 days, ranking 14,570 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 416 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74008: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bixby's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bixby can differ from the 74008 normal.