Commerce, OK 74335 Frost Dates
74335, near Commerce, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Commerce 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
Commerce'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 Commerce's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Commerce against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Commerce places 16,932 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 626 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74335: local microclimates, on what one yard in Commerce can differ from the 74335 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Commerce's frost date answer different questions.