Sand Springs, OK 74121 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Sand Springs, OK?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 220 frost-free days later.
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 Sand Springs, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Sand Springs before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Sand Springs's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sand Springs compares
About 220 days separate Sand Springs's last and first frost, putting it 12,730 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 172 of 764.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Sand Springs's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Sand Springs's dates instead of trusting one.