Catoosa, OK 74015 Frost Dates
Catoosa, OK: when does the frost end?
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Catoosa 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Catoosa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Catoosa's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Catoosa against the rest of the dataset
About 220 days separate Catoosa's last and first frost, putting it 12,785 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 195 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 74015's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Catoosa's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Catoosa's dates instead of trusting one.