Beggs, OK 74456 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beggs, OK, ZIP 74456
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 212 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beggs in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Beggs has about 9 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.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Beggs compares
At roughly 212 frost-free days, Beggs places 14,632 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 429 of 764.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Beggs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Beggs's dates instead of trusting one.