Quapaw, OK 74360 Frost Dates
Quapaw, OK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Quapaw, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Quapaw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Quapaw'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.
Quapaw against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Quapaw places 16,999 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 629 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 74360's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Quapaw can differ from the 74360 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Quapaw's frost date answer different questions.