Rentiesville, OK 74459 Frost Dates
74459, near Rentiesville, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
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 Rentiesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rentiesville'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.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rentiesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Rentiesville places 13,938 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 360 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74459: local microclimates, on what one yard in Rentiesville can differ from the 74459 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Rentiesville's frost date answer different questions.