Big Cabin, OK 74332 Frost Dates
74332, near Big Cabin, OK: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Big Cabin 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
Big Cabin's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Big Cabin's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Big Cabin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Big Cabin places 15,432 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 507 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74332: the frost range, on how to read the range around Big Cabin's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Big Cabin can differ from the 74332 normal.