Locust Grove, OK 74452 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Locust Grove, OK, ZIP 74452
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 223 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Locust Grove, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Locust Grove 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 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. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Locust Grove compares
At roughly 223 frost-free days, Locust Grove places 12,089 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 110 of 764.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Locust Grove can differ from the 74452 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Locust Grove's frost date answer different questions.