Inola, OK 74036 Frost Dates
74036, near Inola, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Inola 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
Inola'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
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Inola against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Inola's last and first frost, putting it 16,327 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 580 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74036: the frost range, on how to read the range around Inola's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Inola can differ from the 74036 normal.