Perkins, OK 74059 Frost Dates
74059, near Perkins, OK: the frost window
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Perkins, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Perkins'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
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perkins against the rest of the dataset
Perkins's growing season runs about 206 days, ranking 16,014 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 551 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74059: local microclimates, on what one yard in Perkins can differ from the 74059 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Perkins's frost date answer different questions.