Sand Springs, OK 74170 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sand Springs, OK, ZIP 74170
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 220 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Sand Springs has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
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 12,744 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 186 of 764.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Sand Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Sand Springs's dates instead of trusting one.