Sand Springs, OK 74153 Frost Dates
74153, near Sand Springs, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Sand Springs 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
Sand Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Sand Springs's last frost
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.
Sand Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Sand Springs places 12,738 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 180 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74153: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sand Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sand Springs can differ from the 74153 normal.