FrostDateCheck

Vera, OK 74082 Frost Dates

Vera, OK: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.

Vera sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Vera's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Vera'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.

Vera against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 220 frost-free days, Vera places 12,899 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 208 of 764.

Learn more

Before leaning on 74082's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Vera's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Vera's dates instead of trusting one.