Salina, OK 74365 Frost Dates
Salina, OK: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Salina 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Salina's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Salina'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.
Salina against the rest of the dataset
Salina's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,323 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 496 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 74365's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Salina's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Salina's dates instead of trusting one.