Slick, OK 74071 Frost Dates
Slick, OK: when does the frost end?
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Slick sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Slick's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
03/30 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 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Slick against the rest of the dataset
About 220 days separate Slick's last and first frost, putting it 12,907 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 211 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 74071's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Slick's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Slick can differ from the 74071 normal.