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Drumright, OK 74068 Frost Dates

Drumright, OK: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 214 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 Drumright, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Drumright's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Drumright's last frost

04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 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.

Drumright against the rest of the dataset

Drumright's growing season runs about 214 days, ranking 14,264 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 372 of 764.

Learn more

Before leaning on 74068's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Drumright's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Drumright's dates instead of trusting one.